Easter Sunday marks the pivotal event in the life of the Church: Jesus Christ has risen from the dead!

It has been a special Holy Week in our church: Maundy Thursday; Good Friday Tenebrae; Holy Saturday. Tomorrow, we celebrate the fact that Christ has conquered sin and death.

N.T. Wright says of Easter,

[Easter] ought to be an eight-day festival, with champagne served after Morning Prayer or even before, with lots of alleluias and extra hymns and spectacular anthems. Is it any wonder people find it hard to believe in the resurrection of Jesus if we don’t throw our hats in the air? Is it any wonder we find it hard to live the resurrection if we don’t do it exuberantly in our liturgies? Is it any wonder the world doesn’t take much notice if Easter is celebrated as simple the one-day happy ending tacked onto forty days of fasting and gloom? It’s long overdue that we took a hard look at how we keep Easter in the Church, at home, in our personal lives, right through the system. And if it means rethinking some cherished habits, well, maybe it’s time to wake up. That always comes as a surprise.

Let's all be surprised together!