Alleluia! Alleluia!
We wish you a very blessed Easter. May you see that “the world is charged with the grandeur of God” (Gerard Manley Hopkins). May you take off your shoes in reverence, acknowledging that the “Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God” (Elizabeth Barrett Browning). May you open your eyes in wonder as you recognise the Risen Jesus in all around you. And, with the words of Edwina Gately, may you go out boldly and tell all peoples …
Breaking through the powers of darkness
bursting from the stifling tomb
he slipped into the graveyard garden
to smell the blossomed air.
Tell them, Mary, Jesus said,
that I have journeyed far
into the darkest deeps I’ve been
in nights without a star.
Tell them Mary, Jesus said,
that fear will flee my light
that though the ground will tremble
and despair will stalk the earth
I hold them firmly by the hand
through terror to new birth.
Tell them, Mary, Jesus said,
the globe and all that’s made
is clasped to God’s great bosom
they must not be afraid
for though they fall and die, he said,
and the black earth wrap them tight
they will know the warmth
of God’s healing hands
in the early morning light.
Tell them, Mary, Jesus said,
smelling the blossomed air,
tell my people to rise with me
to heal the Earth’s despair.
(“Tell Them” by Edwina Gately)
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