This Week At Old South Haven Presbyterian Church
Thursday, April 5 7:00pm Maundy Thursday in the Gallery
“Voices at the Table”
Holy Communion
Friday, April 6 7:30pm Good Friday Service
Tenebrae Service
Sunday, April 8 6:00am Easter
Bellport Dock
Meditation: Dr. John E,
10:00am EASTER
Sermon: “He Has Been Set Loose in the World”
Lessons: Mark 16: 1-8 I Corinthians 15: 1-11
Dedication of One Great Hour of Sharing Offering You are invited to bring an Easter plant; place it in the vestibule and the children will bring them into the sanctuary during the service.
“Being the Resurrection”
by Victoria Weinstein
The stone has got to be rolled back from the tomb again and again each year. Roll up your sleeves.
He is not coming back you know.
He is not coming back unless it is we who rise for him
We who lay healing hands on the reviled and rejected like he did
on his behalf –
We who rage for righteousness in his insistent voice
We who love the sinner, even knowing that “the sinner” is no farther off than our own heartbeat
He will not be back to join us at the table
To share God’s extravagant banquet
God’s love feast, all are invited, come as you are
And so it is you and I who must feast for him
Must say the grace and break the bread and pass it to the left
and dish up the broiled fish (or pour the wine) and pass it to the right.
And treat each one so tenderly
as though just this morning she or he made the personal effort
to make it back from heaven, or form hell
but certainly from death
to be by our side.
Because if by some miracle (and why not a miracle?)
He did come back
Wouldn’t he want to see us like this?
Wouldn’t it be a miracle to live for just one day
So that if he did, by some amazing feat
come riding into town
He could take a look around and say
“This is what I meant!”
And we could say
it took us a long time..
but we finally figured it out.
Oh, let us live to make it so.
You are the resurrection and the life.
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