Post-Easter Reflection: The Emmaus Walk

By V.K., Guest Writer

The Road to Emmaus

We may have expected it, but the traffic coming into Sydney was delayed by hours yesterday.

People were returning home after taking a break over the long Easter weekend.

Coincidentally, this year, 2014, has been the conjunction of 3 major religious events:  Passover for the Jews, Easter for Christians, and even the Orthodox Church people who normally are behind other Christians by a few days, have celebrated Easter the same weekend.  A lot of celebrating has been going on in the last seven days.  It’s been a very special time for a lot of people.

In Bible times, there was just the Passover as a "major" local event. Crowds flooded in for that. In our story we see a couple of people returning home after the chaos and energy of Jerusalem.

Thine Be the Glory, Risen, Conquering Son

HAPPY EASTER!  JESUS IS RISEN!  
To God be the Glory, All things He has done! 

Hymn:
Thine Be the Glory, Risen, Conquering Son

This is one piece of music by Handel (aside from the lyrics of Budry) well-loved by Christians and sung on Sunday services. Next to Handel's Messiah, this is an all-time favourite hymn.

Words: Ed­mond L. Bu­dry, Richard B. Hoyle translated it from French to Eng­lish, 1923.

Music: Ju­das Mac­ca­bae­us,  George F. Handel 

Thine is the glory, risen, conqu’ring Son;
Endless is the victory, Thou o’er death hast won;
Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away,
Kept the folded grave clothes where Thy body lay.

Easter Blessings

Easter is a Christian festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament of the Bible.

Easter is the culmination of the Passion of Christ, preceded by Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance, in the the Roman Catholic Church. The last week of Lent is called Holy Week, including Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday in the Catholic Church), commemorating Maundy and the Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Easter is followed by a fifty-day period called Eastertide or the Easter Season, ending with Pentecost Sunday. 

Easter festival is referred to in English by a variety of different names including Easter Day, Resurrection Day, Easter Sunday and Resurrection Sunday. 

Easter Reflection: Jesus Christ Lives

Easter Sunday: My Redeemer Lives!  

A Blessed Easter to All! To God be the glory, for things He has done!

Easter is a Christian festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament. It is the culmination of the Passion of Christ, preceded by Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. The last week of Lent is called Holy Week, and it contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday in the Catholic Church), commemorating Maundy and the Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus.

Easter is followed by a fifty-day period called Eastertide or the Easter Season, ending with Pentecost Sunday. The festival is referred to in English by a variety of different names including Easter Day, Easter Sunday, Resurrection Day and Resurrection Sunday.  Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar.

The women who followed Joseph [of Arimathea] who had come with Jesus from Galilee, took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb on that first Easter morning. They found the tomb empty Two angels told them, "He is not here, he is risen." (Luke 24:1-6)

When the women told the disciples, they did not believe them "because their words seemed to them like nonsense." (Luke 24:11)

To Christians, Jesus has risen, lives today... ever more.

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"Amen! From Handel's Messiah"

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EAster Blessings. Tel Asiado.