Alleluia!
"Peace be with you. As the Father
has sent me, so I send you."
~ John
20:21
11But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she
bent over to look into the tomb; 12and she saw two
angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head
and the other at the feet. 13They said to her, "Woman,
why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken away my Lord, and I do
not know where they have laid him." 14When she had
said this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know
that it was Jesus. 15Jesus said to her, "Woman, why
are you weeping? For whom are you looking?" Supposing him to be the gardener,
she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid
him, and I will take him away."
John 20:1-18
Holy Women Near
the Tomb/Saintes Femmes au tombeau
DENIS, Maurice,
1894
Musée Départemental du
Prieuré, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
1But on the first day of the week, at
early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared.
2They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,
3but when they went in, they did not find the body.
4While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two
men in dazzling clothes stood beside them.
Luke
24:1-12
Who will roll
away the stone ...
VARGHESE, Hanna
Cheriyan
Malasia
Earth's saddest day
and gladdest day
were just
three days apart!
~ Susan Coolidge
The heavy, ponderous
stone
that sealed Jesus in the confines
of that rock-walled tomb
was
but a pebble compared to the Rock of Ages inside.
~ Anonymous
Dwarf daffodils on Wednesday
... before the snow!
Our church had a joint Seder
Supper with
members of Beth Evergreen
for Maundy Thursday.
It was a meaningful and
serious time.
Well, except for certain
members.
<gr>
Evergreen Rotary
Club
Our speakers this week were
five members of a
Group Study Exchange Team
from Shanghai.
Annabel Wang text messaging to her
parents in Shanghai
after successfully speaking to our
Rotary group. She said
she can't afford to call them every
day, but she can send
messages every day. Sometimes
several!
Carmon and Donald at
Carmon's Opening Reception for his canvases at
The National Center for
Atmospheric Research in Boulder,
Colorado.
EASTER
MORNING
The stirring wildness of
God
calls brittle bones to
leaping
and stone
hearts to soaring.
Old women dance among
the stars.
Ann Weems
April 8, 2007
Easter/Resurrection of the Lord
Previous OPQs may be
found at:
6Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the
tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, 7and the
cloth that had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen wrappings but
rolled up in a place by itself.
John 20:1-18
Agnus Day, by James
Wetzstein
18Then one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answered him,
"Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have
taken place there in these days?" 19He asked them,
"What things?" They replied, "The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who was a
prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,
20and how our chief priests and leaders handed him
over to be condemned to death and crucified him. 21But
we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel.
Luke 24:13-49
Agnus Day, by James
Wetzstein
Acts 10:34-43 or Isaiah
65:17-25
Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24
1 Corinthians 15:19-26 or Acts
10:34-43
John 20:1-18 or Luke 24:1-12
Easter Evening:
Isaiah
25:6-9
Psalm 114:1-8
1 Corinthians 5:6b-8
Luke
24:13-49
