Saturday #3

We thank you,
that you have delivered us from the dominion of sin and  death and have brought us into the kingdom of your Son...  
                                         Collect of the Day 

Saturday in Easter Week #2

Your

 kingdom 

is an 

everlasting 

kingdom 

and your 

dominion 

endures 

throughout 

all ages. 

Psalm 145: 13

The Saturday in Easter Week

Christ,

being raised from the dead, will never die again, death no longer 

has dominion over him. 

          Pascha nostrum 

Easter Friday

 Alleluia, 

alleluia, 

alleluia. 

Christ 

our 

passover 

has been 

sacrificed 

for us, 

therefore 

let us keep 

the feast. 

Pascha nostrum 

Easter Thursday

May we show forth 

in our lives what we profess by our faith

Based on the Collect for Easter Thursday

Easter Wednesday evening Prayer

Abide with us, for evening draws near and the daylight is fading, Alleluia

Easter Wednesday

Light has sprung up for the righteous 

and joyful gladness 

for those who are truehearted, hallelujah.

Easter Antiphon Psalm 97

Easter Tuesday, Vespers

He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness, and brought us into the kingdom of his Son, hallelujah! 

Easter Antiphon on Psalm 114

Easter Tuesday

The death 

that he 

died, 

he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God

Pascha nostrum

Eater Monday at Evening Prayer

On this day the Lord has acted, we will rejoice & be glad  in it. 

Memorial of Baptism at Evening Prayer 

Easter Monday #2

               as in Adam

                all die, 

               so also 

               in Christ 

               shall all

                be made alive. 

               Alleluia.

                    Pascha nostrum 

Easter Monday: petals falling from the  flowers for the 3rd anniversary of Gordon’s death 

Easter Monday

as in Adam 

all die, 

so also in Christ shall all be made alive. Alleluia. 

                                    Pascha  nostrum
I LOVE this graphic and the one I used on Easter morning  but I’ve really been struck this year by how unSHAZAM the Resurrection is. Nobody saw it - it wasn’t even as dramatic as the Transfiguration. Suddenly, Jesus is alive, though still bearing the marks of His Passion. The scars are not left behind.  In our Memorial Acclamation we say not Christ WAS raised, but Christ IS raised: "Christ has died, Christ IS risen, Christ will come again.”  It is in this eternally present moment that Christ is raised. But it’s all pretty quiet, even plebeian. Mary doesn’t recognize Him until He speaks her name. The Easter even story is Jesus appearing and saying “Peace be with you... As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” The alternative reading is Jesus appearing on the road to Emmaus, a story I dearly love. “While they were walking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them.” Nothing shazam  there - they didn’t even recognize until “the breaking of the bread” and then he was gone! And throughout the 50 days of Easter, it’s more of the same - Jesus appearing to reassure, to admonish, to feed, to invite the disciples into the Resurrection life.”As my Father ha sent me so I have sent you.” And so I think I will keep my lenten focus for this Eastertide, which has been the collect for the Transfiguration. which was, after all, a foretaste of the Resurrection, and continue to pray that I may "be strengthened and changed, into his likeness from glory to glory"  but now not strengthened to carry the cross, but to live into the Resurrection life. For however quietly, rising from the dead, He made the whole creation new. A whispered Shazam. 

 Thanks Bill. I now know that Billy Batson said SHAZAM and turned into CAPTAIN MARVEL. I don't remember Captain Marvel l but I sure remember Shaam! 

Vespers, Easter

As 

the 

Father 

sent 

me, 

so I send you. 

Easter morning #2

And 

rising 

from 

the 

dead 

he 

made

the 

whole 

creation new

Easter morning

And rising from the dead 

he made the whole creation new.

Christos anesti! Happy Easter!

The Great Vigil of Easter

Rejoice now, heavenly hosts and choirs of angels, and 

let your

trumpets shout salvation, for the victory of our mighty King...  How blessed is this night when earth and heaven are joined and all are reconciled with God.    The  Exsultet

Holy Saturday #4

                            light shinning on Christ’s tomb in Jerusalem 

grant
that
as the crucified body of your dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so may we wait with him the coming of the third day. 

                  Collect for Holy Saturday

Holy Saturday #3

Christ has died in the flesh and hell trembles. 

He has gone in search of our first parents ... He took them by he hand and raised the up, saying. “ I order you, O sleeper, to awake, I did not create you to be held a prisoner in hell. Rise up, work of my hands let us 

leave this place...”

Holy Saturday #2

Lord, 

remember me 

when you 

come into 

your kingdom. 

Holy Saturday morning

I know that my   Redeemer lives and that 

at the last 

he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has thus been destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see him who is my friend and not a stranger.  

Good Friday #5 After 3pm

My God,
my God,
why
have you    
forsaken me?
And are so far from my cry and from the words of my distress?  Psalm 22:1


I have always thought of these words as exclusively the words of Jesus on the cross. But surely they are his mother’s words as well, as she holds her son’s dead body now taken down now from the cross.  surely They are The words of all mothers - and fathers  -and all who mourn, all who are abandoned and lost: all who walk through the dark night of the soul whether the darkness is inward or outward. it all began with such bright promise, and now, here we find ourselves.  "My god my god, why have you abandoned me and are so far from me and from the rods of my distress?"

Good Friday #4

He stretched out his arms upon the cross, and offered himself, a perfect sacrifice for the sins of the whole world.

Eucharistic Prayer A

Good Friday #3

Harden not your heart

Good Friday

a man of sorrows 
and acquainted 
       with grief  

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Early dawn Good Friday

Peter 

remembered 

what the Lord 

had said, 

that he would 

betray him 

three times, 

and he 

went out 

and wept 

bitterly

Maundy Thursday

As they were eating, 
Jesus took bread, blessed it          

          Barch Atah Adonai Eloheinu

broke it, and
gave it to his disciples.

Maundy Thursday

Because there is 

one bread, 

we who are 

many 

are one body, 

for we all 

partake 

of the one bread 

I COr 10:17

Gordon Fennien Buck Jr November 7, 1934- April 21, 2008

Wednesday in Holy Week

Blessed are those who trust in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. They shall

 be like a tree planted by water... 

It shall not fear when heat comes ... 

In the year of draught it is not anxious 

and it does not cease to bear fruit.                                                     Jeremiah 17:7-8

Evening of Tuesday in Holy Week

      by the passion 

            of your 

       blessed Son 

       you made an 

      instrument of 

            shameful 

               death 

          to be for us 

the means of life... 

          

         Collect for the Tuesday in Holy Week 

Remind us, Lord, as we walk this week with you, that the cross is not A means but The means... There is so much struggle, loss and injustice, so much weariness and pain that we are tempted to think that there is another way, one that sidesteps this bit. But there is not, there is only this long, dusty Way and in embracing it, it becomes , unaccountably, the Way of life and peace. "Help us, we pray, it the midst of things we cannot understand to believe and trust..." (Prayers of the People at a Burial Rite 1 BCP Page 481) 

Tuesday in Holy Week

Whoever 

serves

me 

must 

follow 

me. 

                    John 12:26

Passover begins at Sundown

By his 

wounds we are healed

Monday in Holy Week

Palm Sunday

Bless the Lord, O my soul,  and forget not all his benefits. 

Psalm 103:2

Palm Sunday

      

               H
               O

               S

               A

               N

               N

               A

               ! 

          The Lord is my light and my salvation;

          Whom then shall I fear?

          The Lord is the strength of my life;

          Of whom then shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1

Kathy Bafetti: Rest In Peace

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean, an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my sides says “There, she is gone!”  

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large of mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined point. 

Her diminished size is in me, not in her.  And just at the moment when someone at my side says “There, she is gone!” there are others eyes watching her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: “Here she comes! “

         -Anonymous

Saturday

Glorify the Lord, 

O nights and days,

O shining light and enfolding dark, praise him 

and highly exalt him for ever. 

From The Benedicte: A Song of Creation 

Somehow it's gotten to be the last Friday before Holy Week

If the root is holy, then the branches also are holy. Romans 11:16

Thursday eve

My sheep hear my voice.  I know them and they follow me.  John 10: 27

  

  

  like a child     upon it’s    

         mother’s      breast, 

 my soul is quieted within me. Psalm 131:3