Posted Thursday 01 April 2010
In an Easter reflection the Most Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church says:
“Good Friday and Easter Day are the centre of the Christian faith story. Our churches will be busy this weekend. Our worship will be full of drama and emotion as we tell again what we believe to be the greatest story of all human history. You will be welcome join us and to be part of that.
“The story is about us all - and about God. Jesus’ journey towards the Cross of Calvary is played out in our lives. It’s in the wrong we do, but even more in the things where we try to get it right but achieve only failure and loss. That is our experience of the brokenness of the human condition. We know ourselves to be part of it. The drama of the innocent suffering and death of Jesus is the story of how God suffers and dies - restoring through that suffering the lost relationship between God and his people.
“Through and beyond that suffering is the joy of Easter celebration. Our churches on Easter Sunday will be bright, full of spring flowers, alive with the proclamation that Christ is risen. We know it, believe it and proclaim it. The story of the stone rolled away from the empty tomb of the risen Christ is a mystery of the power of God. The heart of the mystery is this - through the innocent suffering of Jesus and his obedient acceptance of death new life pours the message of hope into the world.
“Christ is Risen!”
