Sunday April 11 Octave day of Easter
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Psalm 146
Joy in God’s victorious justice for the oppressed, the blind, the strangers and the orphans—that justice for all is built into God’s magnificent creation. Appropriate for Sunday, and for the “octave of Easter” today, the Sunday which completes a full week of celebrating the resurrection—God’s victory over all evil.
Psalm 147
God’s wondrous creation and God’s commitment to justice are intertwined. Other cultures are not aware of this. What a helpful insight in our day!
Isaiah 43: 3-13 What’s Isaiah about?
God states that no god has ever done anything like rescuing God’s people from slavery as happened with the Babylonians 600 years before Jesus. God’s people are the witnesses that no god ever did anything like that. We are witnesses of the resurrection which no current power or politician can begin to emulate.
John 14: 1-7 What’s John about?
Jesus explains he is preparing a way for future disciples to join him. But the disciples, like us, feel lost without a plan of how to experience God when Jesus is no longer present physically. Jesus’ response is that if we’ve known Jesus, which we do through Holy Spirit, then we’ve experienced God. His point is that God isn’t some great distance away from us, but that if we have experienced Jesus’ death and resurrection we’ve experienced God’s central character and that means we are already living in God.
This week’s collect:
Almighty and eternal God,
the strength of those who believe
and the hope of those who doubt,
may we, who have not seen, have faith
and receive the fullness of Christ’s blessing,
who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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