Comments on: Letters May 2014 https://journeyonline.com.au/letters/letters-may-2014/ Mon, 12 May 2014 00:26:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Betty Hocking https://journeyonline.com.au/letters/letters-may-2014/#comment-134 Mon, 12 May 2014 00:10:29 +0000 http://journeyonline.com.au/?p=18722#comment-134 For over eighty years I have worshipped in different churches in many of which Easter was all ‘celebration’ with Easter eggs and holidays appearing to assume greater importance, and Good Friday almost ignored. Of course on this side of the Cross we can rightfully appreciate and celebrate Christ’s victory for us over evil, but it did seem to me that something was being glossed over to the point of being almost forgotten. At times I found myself envying the Stations of the Cross tradition of Roman Catholic worshippers.

This year I participated for the first time in short Holy Week meditation services, including a Tenebrae service, after which we walked out in silence into a clear night with a full moon, our hearts full also with a renewed understanding of the depths of God’s sacrificial love.
To participate in this ‘walk to the Cross’ with Jesus made the wonderful dawn service on Resurrection Sunday especially meaningful.

No-one is compelled to attend, but those who do so in a prayerful spirit I believe are greatly blessed.

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