Worship Quotables

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• This Most High Day
  Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praiseWithout delays,Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewiseWith him mayst rise:That, as his death calcined thee to dust,His life may make thee gold, and much more just. Awake, my lute, and struggle for thy partWith all thy art.The cross taught all wood to resound his […]
• Perspective
  Laurence Stookey reminds us that our common Easter images of springtime, blooming flowers, eggs, etc., are totally Northern-Hemisphere in their orientation: south of the equator Easter falls in the autumn! —Laurence Stookey, Calendar: Christ’s Time for the Church, 53
• The Chief Festival of the Church: Every Sunday!
  For Christians Sunday is the chief festival occasion of the faith. About this there is much misunderstanding. Many active Christians would say that Christmas is their chief festival. Closer to the mark, but still missing it, are those who would say that Easter Day is the principal feast of the church. What is amiss about […]
• Easter: A Season, not a Day
  “Easter” is the period of eight Sundays [until Pentecost], comprising fifty days, often called as a unit “the Great Fifty Days.” For the explosive force of the resurrection of the Lord is too vast to be contained within a celebration of one day.   The recovery of Easter as “the Great Fifty Days” of the […]