Thursday in Easter Week

                                                 Pasha nostrum

As 

in 

Adam all die, 

so also in Christ 

shall all be made alive. 

           May we let God "easter in us, 

be a  dayspring to the dimness of us. " 

                    -  Gerard Manley Hopkins 

                       via Give Us This Day

Wednesday Evening Prayer in Easter Week

                                               Luke 24:32  

  and they recognized him  

Wednesday in Easter Week

                                                 Pasha nostrum  

                                                                   (BCP Page 83)

Alleluia. 

Alleluia.

Alleluia.

Christ our 

Passover 

has been 

sacrificed for us; 

therefore let us keep the feast. 

Not with the old leaven of malice 

& evil but with the unleavened bread 

                   of sincerity & truth. Alleluia. 

Evening Prayer Tuesday

                              Easter antiphon 

                                   on Psalm 114 

  

God has 

delivered  

us from the 

dominion 

of darkness 

& brought 

us into the 

kingdom of his Son, hallelujah. 

Easter Tuesday

                        Collect of the day 

Grant 

that 

we, 

who 

have 

been 

raised with Christ, 

   may abide in his presence 

              and rejoice in… hope. 

PM on Easter Monday

                                    I Corinthians 15:3,4 

I handed 

on to you 

as of first 

importance 

what I in 

turn had 

received: 

that Christ 

died for our sins… 

                   and that he was raised  

on the third day

Monday in Easter Week

  The Venite

Oh, 

that 

today  

you 

would 

hearken 

to his voice! 

evening on that day, the first day of the week,

                                    John 20:19

When 

it was 

even-ing 

on 

that day, 

the first day 

of the week, and the 

doors of the house where

the disciples had met were

locked for fear of the Jews,

Jesus came and stood

among them and said, 

              "Peace be wit you." 

While Easter might have been and Event for Jesus, and who knows what kind of an event - was it sudden? or like a Father waking His Son from sleep? We don’t have a clue.  But it was quite obviously a process for the disciples rather than an event... 

Easter Day

The 

Lord 

is 

risen 

indeed, 

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

                     Or, as my Sister Corita serigraph from the 60s puts it: 

               New life springing up 

                 all green and gorgeous

The Great Vigil of Easter

                                            The Exsultet

 This is the night when Christ broke the bonds of sin and death, and 

rose victorious from the grave. 

Holy Saturday

                                                Collect of the Day

Grant that, 

as 

the cruci-fied body 

of  

your 

dear Son 

was laid in the tomb 

and rested on this holy Sabbath, 

so we may wait with him the coming of the third day and with the rise to newness of life 

late afternoon

Lord 

Jesus 

Christ, 

Son 

of the

 living 

God, 

we pray 

you to 

set your passion, cross, & death between your judgment and our souls, now and in 

the hour of our death. 

3pm

        
 It is finished. 

Making sure things are right for the Sabbath.

                                                               St John Chrysostom 

The 

soldier 

pierced  

the

Lord’s 

side,  he

 breached 

the walls 

of the sacred temple, 

and I have found the treasure and made it my own.

Noon on Good Friday

 by his wounds we are healed  

Absorbing the fear and hate 

of thousands of years,

  I clothed myself in flesh 

  and vulnerability

And came back to my plundered home.

I walked among those whose pain I had 

   shouldered from the beginning of time,

The cast off and thrown away.

I took the leper into my arms.

In my eyes the used 

  and exploited found their humanity 

  reflected back to them.

             Part of a poem by Lindsey Paris-Lopez

Good Friday morning (from Psalm 22)

                 

                                           

Be not far away, 

O Lord, for you 

are my strength 

The betrayal of Judas and Jesus' arrest rrest

  Antiphon on 

   Psalm 143

My 

spirit 

faints 

within 

me; my  

heart 

within 

me is 

desolate.

Evening Prayer o Maundy Thursday

                          Antiphon on the Magnificat

As

they 

were 

eating 

 Jesus 

  took bread, 

   and blessed, 

    and broke it, 

     and gave it to his disciples.

Maundy Thirsday

                              Psalm 102:1

Lord, hear 

my prayer &

let my cry come before you; hide not your face from me in the day of my trouble

         I wonder

I wonder what Je-sus did on the last kind of normal day 

of his life? Or was that yesterday? 

One only knows in hindsight.   

                                                                          And look! Soon there will be a supper, the kind that has never 

before been on earth, in which God will 

l give himself to us as food. 

- Catherine Doherty

                                                            

Wednesday Evening Prayer

                                     Psalm 74:15,16b 

Yours is 

the day, 

yours also 

the night; 

you established  

the moon and the sun. 

you made both summer & winter.

The Wednesday in Holy week

                                                      Canticle 14

You, O Lord, are God 

of those who repent, and in me 

you will show forth your goodness. 

                                  This is a week of quiet. 

                            That is to say, this week 

                   we should have a quiet heart.

            Catherine de Hueck Doherty (1896–1985) 

Tuesday evening

                                                                                                                       Psalm 94:19

when 

many 

care 

fill 

my 

mind, 

your consolations cheer my soul.

The Tuesday in Holy Week

                                              Collect of the Day

by the 

passion of 

your Son 

you made 

an instrument 

of shameful death 

to be the means of life

                                      This is a week 

of examining ourselves. Not with sort 

of cold, intellectualized examination 

of conscience to count our sins…. 

No, it is our week to find 

out how little we love…

and to learn to love

Christ more.  

               - Catherine de Hueck Doherty (1896–1985)