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      ALLELUIA!!! 
    HE HAS RISEN!

“Easter celebrates the victory of light and life over darkness and death,”
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori rejoices, in her Easter Message 2013.
 
Easter Message 2013


Rejoice, rejoice and sing, rejoice and be glad… for earth and heaven are joined and humanity is reconciled to God! [1]


As the Lenten season ends in Easter rejoicing, note what has been wrought in you this year.  A remarkable cross-section of America has been practicing Lenten disciplines, even some who are not active Christians. [2]   There is a deep hunger in our collective psyche to re-orient our lives toward life and light, healing and peace.  We share
a holy hunger for clarity about what is good and life-giving, and we yearn to re-focus on what is most central and important in life.


Easter celebrates the victory of light and life over darkness and death.  God re-creates and redeems all life from dead, dry, and destroyed bones.  We are released from the bonds of self-obsession, addiction, and whatever would steal away the radical freedom of God-with-us.  Our lives re-center in what is most holy and creative, the new thing God is continually
doing in our midst.  Practicing vulnerability toward the need and hunger of others around us, we have cultivated compassionate hearts.  We join in
baptismal rebirth in the midst of Jesus’ own passing-over.


The wonder of the resurrection is upon us once more.  May we embrace God’s ever-new life with every cell of our being, every yearning of our soul,
and every muscle of our will.  Christ is risen, death is vanquished, humanity is restored to holy and creative relationship with God’s ongoing and eternal liveliness.  Praise God who brings light out of darkness, life out of death, and newness out of the stale and moribund.  Alleluia! 
Christ is risen!


The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
Presiding Bishop and  Primate
The Episcopal Church


[1] From the Exsultet, Book of Common Prayer  pp 286-7
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/16/us/a-ritual-of-lent-attracts-nonbelievers.html?_r=0

The Lord has risen indeed.

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EASTER, 2013

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Services at St Andrew's in May
Holy Communion (Sung) Sunday Mornings at 9:30 am  (Rite II).
Nursery and Sunday School are available during the service (followed by fellowship and coffee in the Parish Hall).

Bible Study beginning Wednesday April 8 at 12 pm
Youth Group Wednesday at 3:30pm

_"Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it."
Hebrews 13:2 (NRSV)