American Anglican Council (AAC)
The Rt. Rev. David C. Anderson (President and CEO)
From the Scriptures
Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
I Corinthians 6:5b-8 (ESV)
The Collect
ALMIGHTY God, who through thine only-begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life; We humbly beseech thee that, as by thy special grace preventing us thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost ever, one God, world without end. Amen.
“Easter Day,” The Book of Common Prayer (USA, 1928)
A Heritage Reflection
“Happy then this day to us; happy we that this day came, which opens to us a door of hope—have reason, therefore, to remember it, and with joy to keep it, as the first dawning of a better hope, the day-spring of all our happiness. This day our head is risen, and with him our hope has enlarged its borders, and made a prospect into the other world, sees some comfort there for our sorrows here. This day's bright -shining beams have lightened our eyes, that now we shall not sleep in death; a Sunday indeed, the first true Sunday that ever shone, wherein the Sun of righteousness arose out of the chambers of the grave, to guide our feet out of misty darkness into marvellous light--out of the paths of the dead into the land of the living--out of this miserable into a blessed life by Christ's resurrection.”
Rev. Mark Frank (1613-1664)
Sermons (Vol. II)
Sermons (Vol. II)
3 comments:
Thank you, for this prayer, I will read this inspiring prayer to our congregation on Easter Morning.
HE HAS RISEN INDEED.
Joe Palme
"...the first true Sunday that ever shone..."
I don't believe I ever thought about Easter that exactly that way. It is the Lord's Day, Resurrection Day, each Sunday is the feast of the Resurrection.
I think I shall spell Sunday, Sonday in my heart and mind from now on.
I love your devotions, WHS, especially the way you coordinate the Scriptures, prayers and heritage reflections. I guess years in the BCP and studying the words of saints who have passed on has given you the ear and heart to put together this kind of feast for worship and thought for us, that anchors our minds and imaginations on Jesus Christ...on Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
I wish you could (though you have your own battles, trials to endure and life to live) post them weekly!
And pray about publishing a book with a collection of these devotions.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for your kind words.
Luke 17:10.
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