The Trumpet of Imagination for Easter Thursday
Happy Resurrection, friends! While the Easter Octave continues through Sunday, this will be the final post until next week. I'll be away this weekend for my final residency and graduation for my spiritual direction certification . I’m excited to share some of the experience with you next week!
May you know new life, peace, and hope today, tomorrow, and forever. Easter Sunday kicks off a week in the liturgical calendar known as the Easter Octave and a seven-week festival called Eastertide or The Great Fifty Days.
Hallelujah! Christ is risen!
“The trumpet of imagination, like the trumpet of the Resurrection, calls the dead out of their graves…The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled so much as to make settled things strange; not so much to make wonders facts as to make facts wonders.”—G. K. Chesterton
Read: Psalm 146, 147; Ezekiel 37:1-14; 1 Corinthians 15:41-50; John 15:12-27
Sunday Scripture readings are taken from the Revised Common Lectionary (Year C). Daily Scripture readings are taken from the Book of Common Prayer (Year 1) with the Psalm for the Morning Office.
Pray:
“Almighty and everlasting God, who in the Paschal mystery established the new covenant of reconciliation: Grant that all who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ’s Body may show forth in their lives what they profess by their faith; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.”
Listen:
Resurrection 2019 playlist on Spotify. You can add it to your account by clicking ‘Follow.’
Do:
In previous years, we've celebrated the Great 50 Days between Easter Sunday and Pentecost Sunday (aka, Eastertide) with a series I've dubbed Practice Resurrection (after the Wendell Berry poem). It's one of my favorite series all year, and I'm excited to start again. I need your photos and captions to make it work. To help prime the pump, I thought you might enjoy the list of ideas I brainstormed for simple ways to practice resurrection.
Choose 1 idea or 50, but whatever you do, do it with gusto!
Here's how you can share your photo stories with me for the blog:
1. Add something to your day that helps you practice resurrection (one day or fifty days -doesn't matter).
2. Take a picture and write a description in 1-50 words.
3. Share it with me via email, share on my Facebook page, or tag me on Instagram (you can tag me with @a_sacramental_life or use the #PracticeResurrection2019 hashtag.)
I look forward to hearing from you!