April 14, 2023

Alleluia! Christ is risen!

Thank you to all who helped make this a beautiful and meaningful Holy Week and Easter Sunday. It would be impossible to name everyone but please know all your efforts were seen and so appreciated. Special thanks this year to:

• Kate and Jenny for organizing hospitality and all who brought food and set up and cleaned up

• To all who participated in the Vigil skits and to all who read during services

• To Nancy, Karen, and the Altar Guild support who did so much behind the scenes (including Janine, who ran out to Ace Hardware to save the day the evening of Easter Vigil - that was a story!)

• To Tony, Naomi, and the choir who added so much to our services with their stunning musical offerings

• Our vergers and acolytes

• RaeKell and her crew who supported the Easter Bunny's visit to Saint Anne's

• Kathy, who printed a gazillion bulletins

• The Rev. Luis Ottley in his first Holy Week as a deacon

• Bishop Marty and Spirit of Hope for their partnership

• All of you who showed up in so many ways, body, mind, and/or spirit, to enter Holy Week, that most sacred time, together

And now we get to spend the Great 50 Days of Easter watching the snow melt and marveling at the way all things, even in what seemed to be the most impossible situations, can be made new. We get to spend the 50 Days of Easter wondering, seeking, doubting, seeing, growing, and celebrating together. 

My prayer for you this week is that you see the risen Christ everywhere you look: in the greening of the earth, in a smile from a stranger, and in the beating of your own heart. My prayer for you this week is that, in some way, that one thing had seemed to you to be an impossible situation in your world can be made new.