Seasons
Easter
For when you feel: easter, resurrection, he is risen, easter morning
He is not here. For he is risen, as he said. Come, and see the place where the Lord was laid.
The MinuteHomily
The women came at dawn, ready to tend a body, and found an angel sitting where the problem should have been. "He is not here: for he is risen, as he said." Hold that last phrase, as he said. The resurrection was not a surprise recovery; it was a kept appointment, and every other promise He ever made is now backed by the same collateral. If Christ is risen, then death is a defeated bully, the debt is paid, and every grave your people have wept beside is temporary housing. So let this morning be more than a spring tradition. Let the news be news again. The worst thing that ever happened became the best thing that ever happened. He is risen. He is risen indeed.
By the MinuteHomily editors
A prayer for this moment
Risen Lord, You kept the appointment death couldn't cancel. Roll every stone off my heart today, and let me live like the tomb is empty, because it is. Amen.
“We are an Easter people, and Alleluia is our song.”
after St. Augustine
Hymns for this moment
“Jesus Christ Is Risen Today” · trad., from the Latin
“Regina Caeli” · Eastertide chant
One small step
Tell one person "He is risen" today and mean it: the oldest greeting in the church.
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