Lenten/ Easter Links 9 via Fr. Binks
- AMY WELBORN covers Easter worldwide. She’s got moving photographs from Catholic celebrations of the Triduum from around the world … (gkupsidedown.blog)
- ORTHODOX EASTER– Getting your Slav on … (sergesblog.blog)
- N.T. WRIGHT: Jesus the Risen Judge – and Forgiver … (freerep)
- GNOSTICISM and the Resurrection of Christ … (pblosser.blog)
- CROSS-CENTRED? or Resurrection Centered? … (mrlauterbach)
- SAINT BENEDICT of Nursia’s Easter; The Easter ‘Hit’ Parade … (benedictseraphim)
- ALL2COMMON– “Easter: The Never-Ending Surprise” … (all2common)
- VIA ZENIT– Pope Benedict XVI’s Easter Message: ‘A Renewed Witness to the Resurrection of Christ’; readings from the Rome Stations of the Cross at the Colisseum (read the whole thing) … (zenit)
- CHRISTIANS ANGERED by Easter-time promotions for questionable works about Jesus; “Isn’t it simply Easter season, when fresh Gnostic gospels or dubious ossuaries show up like spring daffodils?” … (t19, odoxytoday)
- DAVID WARREN: “…what were we putting up with, as Easter approached? The betting on Judas was, as usual in recent years, fairly heavy. The Lenten season was itself kicked off with The Lost Tomb of Jesus, about which I wrote at the time: a truly miserable attack on the Christian faithful, by filmmakers out to maket their thirty bags of cash. We’ve had the full frontal chocolate Jesus from the art world; and Barack Obama dressed as Jesus in another statue. We’ve had the usual Church of England gay cleric, the Rev. Jeffrey John, announcing that the Resurrection did not happen, and implying that if the Crucifixion did, God must have psychopathic tendencies. We’ve had Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens and a few more “media atheists” take their best seasonal shots” … (davidwarrenonline)
- EASTER MARKED by Arab Christians; Still Illegal in Saudi Arabia … (christianpost.com)
- NOTES: Pascha & Bright Week … (southern-orthodoxy.blog)
- FAR EASTERN EASTER: “Thousands are baptised in Beijing, while in Zhejiang two priests are imprisoned” … (transfigurations)
- THE TIME Of Easter or Eastertide — Easter Seasons … (freerep)
- TAKING ON the Pernicious Secularization of Our Holidays … (bovinabloviator.blog)
- CHURCH CELEBRATES Easter at Jewish Synagogue … (livingchurch)
- TIMID HOSPITAL ‘bans hot cross buns at Easter to avoid offending non-Christians’… (dailymail)
- VIA THINKING ANGLICANS– Easter Day sermons; Easter weekend columns; more Easter columns … (ta)
- SERBIAN ORTHODOX Church to Her Spiritual Children at Pascha, 2007 … (freerep)
- BY NAME– “When Mary comes to the tomb of Jesus early Sunday morning and sees the stone rolled away, she immediately runs to tell the other disciples what she assumed to be true: someone had come and taken away the body of Jesus” … (allthesethings)
- CARIOCA: Becoming Who We Are: An Easter Homily … (cariocaconfessions.blog)
- VIA PRYAIN– The Rev. William Klock: “Therefore Let Us Keep the Feast” … (prydain)
- UP DOWN UNDER: “Easter attendance up significantly in Australia” … (news.com.au)
- MERE COMMENTS: “Easter Blessings” … (merecomments)
- THE JUSTICE of Easter: Thoughts from a Prison Yard, By Chuck Colson … (christianpost)
- DRELL– A Look Back: Last Year’s Easter Vigil Meditation … (descant)
- TELEGRAPH: “The flesh and blood hopes of Easter” … (telegraph)
- EASTER SERVICE in cemetery reflects faith … (freerep)
- UPERKPERISOU– : Easter Meditation. And via: Jason Engwer on Trialogue features a discussion of the importance of the resurrection on the Church Fathers … (uperekperisou.blog, triablogue)
- AMERICAN DIGESTThree Crosses of Easter … (americandigest)
- +LIVERPOOL– Good Friday: The Suffering of God … (islamdom.blog)
- FR. STEPHEN– And Into the Brightness; Which Way Does Time Work? … (fatherstephen)
- BENEDICT SERAPHIM: “Wow. (Or Sleepy Pascha Morning Thoughts on the Three Days’ Experience)” … (benedictseraphim)
- THE JUSTICE OF EASTER: Thoughts from Prison Yard … (townhall)
- TIMOTHEOS: Easter at St Alban’s Episcopal Church … (timotheosprologizes.blog)
- CAPTAIN YIPS: “Jesus is bringing to perfection all the promises of God” … (captainyips)
- EASTER’S HOPE is refreshingly infectious … (canada)
- UNION WITH CHRIST and Two Types of Christians … (scriptoriumdaily)
- ANGLICANS ONLINE Easter 2007– for those of you who like that sort of thing … (morgue)
- THE EASTER BUNNY Lives at Our House … (gatesofvienna.blog)
- MAKE YOUR OWN Giant Cadbury Egg … (neatorama)