O Almighty God, hear thy people who are met this day to celebrate the glorious resurrection of thy Son our Lord; and lead them on from this season to eternal gladness, to the joys that have no end; through the same our Saviour Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end.
Annibale Carracci, The Resurrection Of Christ, 16th Century pic.twitter.com/TZcL3XnhVX
— Solas (@solas_na_greine) December 6, 2024
From here:
“The heart of the earth has accepted and received the Son of God; and it is from a womb so consecrated, this womb of the ‘hellish’ depths of human existence, that the saved creature rises up. Not just (not even temporarily) in the Son alone. It is not that he alone descended and so rose again as victor because death could not hold him captive. ‘Even now’ he is not the firstborn among the dead in the sense that he is even now the only human being to have found the complete fulfillment of his whole human reality. . . . the Son of Man ‘cannot’ have risen alone. What, we may ask, is really to be understood by his glorified bodily condition (if we take it seriously, and don’t spiritualize it into another way of talking about his eternal ‘communion with God’) right up to the ‘Last Day’, if meanwhile it should persist all by itself—something which is precisely unthinkable for the bodily condition (though glorified)? So when we find in Mt 27:52 s. that other bodies too, those of saints, rose up with him (indeed even ‘appeared’—as he himself did—to show that the end of the ages has already come upon us), this is merely positive evidence from Scripture for what we would have expected anyway, if definitive salvation has already been unshakably founded, death conquered, and a man, for whom it is never good to be alone, has entered upon the fulfillment of his whole being. Hence to try to set aside this testimony from Matthew as a ‘mythological’ intrusion, or to argue away its eschatological meaning with ingenious evasions—such as that it is merely a matter of a temporary resurrection or even of ‘phantom bodies’—would not be in accord with the authoritative voice of Scripture. It is a fact that by far the greater part of the Fathers and the theologians, right up to the present day, have firmly maintained the eschatological interpretation of the text as the only one possible from the exegetical point of view.”
The Risen Christ, also known as Christ the Redeemer or Christ Carrying the Cross(finished in 1521)by Michelangelo (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564)was an Italian sculptor (church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome Italy) pic.twitter.com/IgUbbt0znG
— Bill Koudounas (@billKoudounas) April 19, 2025
Lyrics:
There ain’t no grave
Can hold my body down
There ain’t no grave
Can hold my body down
When I hear that trumpet sound
I’m gonna rise right out of the ground
Ain’t no grave
Can hold my body down
Well, I look way down the river
What do you think I see?
I see a band of angels
And they’re coming after me
Ain’t no grave
Can hold my body down
There ain’t no grave
Can hold my body down
Well, look down yonder, Gabriel
Put your feet on the land and sea
But Gabriel, don’t you blow your trumpet
Till you hear from me
There ain’t no grave
Can hold my body down
Ain’t no grave
Can hold my body down
Well, meet me, Jesus, meet me
Meet me in the middle of the air
And if these wings don’t fail me
I will meet you anywhere
Ain’t no grave
Can hold my body down
There ain’t no grave
Can hold my body down
Well, meet me, mother and father
Meet me down the river road
And mama, you know that I’ll be there
When I check in my load
There ain’t no grave
Can hold my body down
There ain’t no grave
Can hold my body down
If we’re honest, we’ve all fallen short—of the standards we set for ourselves, and especially of God’s perfect standard of love.
Jesus offers us peace with God through the forgiveness he provides. If he prayed for pardon for those who crucified him, he will also extend it to youand me, when we ask.
Easter is God’s act of reconciliation—the forgiveness the world sodesperately needs, and the forgiveness we all need personally.
Now is the time to find forgiveness through Jesus.
#cuadrodeldía Noli me tangere, 1630 1640 (Jan Brueghel el Joven 1601-78) privado #art Barroco flamenco, hijo de Jan Brueghel el Viejo y seguidor de Rubens. Produjo paisajes y alegorías y copias de su padre, pero su estilo es más ligero, peor acabado #FelizDomingo #SemanaSanta pic.twitter.com/899bI06hdW
— Pepa Montero Mérida (@PepaMonteroM) April 20, 2025
So how does this way of thinking relate to Easter — to the Christian story of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, marked by so many at this time of the year? While Lewis’s writings show him to have had a good grasp of basic Christian theological themes by 1940, his appreciation of their existential depth seems to have emerged later. His Grief Observed, from 1961, incorporates the suffering of Christ on Good Friday into his reflections on his wife’s slow and lingering death from cancer, leading him to a deeper grasp of the ability of the Christian faith to support people in times of bewilderment and suffering.
In much the same way, Lewis’s later realisation that he himself was dying seems to have prompted a more profound reflection on the meaning of Christ’s resurrection. In some of his letters in the final months of his illness, Lewis spoke of the hope that he had in the face of death. He was, he wrote, “a seed waiting in the good earth: waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into the real world, the real waking.”
Many of Lewis’s fans will make the pilgrimage to Holy Trinity church and stand silently by his graveside. Yet while Lewis’s gravestone might speak of our shared mortality, his works and his witness point to something more profound — hope in a greater reality and a better realm, whose door has been thrown open by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Andrea Mantegna
— Solas (@solas_na_greine) March 31, 2024
The Resurrection (detail)
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Almighty God, you show those in error the light of your truth so that they may turn to the path of righteousness: Grant that all who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ’s Body may show forth in their lives what they profess by their faith; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Good morning 😊
— Veronica in the Fens 🧚🏼♀️ My Heart in Nature (@VeronicaJoPo) April 24, 2025
The views are many of Ely Cathedral across ’The Fens’, this one was taken from the Queen Adelaide Way past the Boat House. Love the reeds 🧡
Ely, Cambridgeshire #TheShipoftheFens #ElyCathedral #landscapephotography #TheFens pic.twitter.com/drPGzTaHW9
As they were saying this, Jesus himself stood among them. But they were startled and frightened, and supposed that they saw a spirit. And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do questionings rise in your hearts? See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have.” And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate before them.
Then he said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.
–Luke 24:36-48
Agor y gât i fore hudolus arall…bore piau bois bach…Bore da x
— Aled Hall 🏴 (@AledHall) April 24, 2025
Opening the gate to another magical morning…best time of the day…have a great day…Bore da x@ThePhotoHour @StormHour @ItsYourWales @S4Ctywydd @Ruth_ITV #TeifiValley🏴❤️ pic.twitter.com/ntcOgVEnko