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Saturday, March 22, 2008 This bulletin will come on alternate Saturday mornings to provide a quick summary of what is happening in the Diocese and beyond. Rectors, especially those in the DHC, may wish to copy this Fortnightly to parishioners who have e-mail, or to have parishioners’ e-mail addresses sent to afdv1@yahoo.com.
Pennsylvania
Rosemont – Church of the Good Shepherd, Evensong sung by the Valley Forge Choir of Men and Boys, Sunday, April 6, 5:00 p.m.
South Carolina
Summerville - Federation of Anglican Churches in the Americas meeting for officers and voting members, Tuesday, April 8, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., at the RE Diocese of the SE Headquarters.
North Carolina
Pinehurst – at Christ Church, Episcopal Visit on Sunday, May 4 by Bishop Timothy Farmer. “Bringing Christ into any state of death transforms it into a state of resurrection. In Christ the world becomes Eucharist. In him we can transfigure the world by bringing it to the risen Christ, who offers resurrection to everyone and everything. It is up to Christians to show people that the cross, all the crosses of history, call upon us to advance from possession to sharing and offering, to discover the Giver through the gift, to spread heavenly gladness, the breaking of the day with no sunset, the day of the Kingdom.” (Olivier Clement, The Roots of Christian Mysticism, p. 192) Jesus’ Resurrection gives rise to the confidence that an incredibly good God governs us and brings us to victory. Our Lady is now the Queen of Victory, the Woman clothed with the sun. God has wept with us that we may laugh with Him. An undercurrent of new life in a new creation full of heavenly gladness began to erupt in a new civilization, raised out of the ashes of fallen Rome, a new civilization based on Jesus’ Death and Resurrection and the festal gladness of the weekly Eucharist. The apostolic proclamation is the Resurrection. Every Sunday commemorates it. Every baptism grafts another person into the dying and rising of the Lord Jesus Christ. Every Eucharist lifts us to the Bridal Chamber with our risen Bridegroom. In the New Testament, everything is seen in the light of Jesus’ Resurrection. The Church Year is based on Easter Day. The Paschal Candle is the largest in the church. In the coming years, the Resurrection may be even more emphasized by the whole Church. In the Western Church, Jesus’ Passion and Death has been the focus in theology and liturgy. With Anglicans, and the Antiochians, the Incarnation is the focus. In the Eastern Church, it is the Resurrection. In the days to come, the Resurrection may be even more central for us all. We stake everything on the Resurrection, on the Saviour Who is risen and leads us to communion and glory, through the Cross, to the Crown, to Heaven, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Like the apostles, as Ignatius IV says, we are prophets of the new creation and visionaries of the risen Christ, unto Whom, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, be all honor and glory, unto endless ages of ages. Amen. +PCH |