Rise all again and again: Easter Thursday
Source: Poetry (October/November 1995)
Happy Resurrection week friends! 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.
Read all the way to the bottom to join my photo-a-day challenge for the first week of Eastertide!
LOOK: Flower Day (Día de Flores), Diego Rivera - Source
LISTEN: Here Comes the Sun, Eastertide 2023 playlist
READ: Psalm 146-149; Ezekiel 37:1-14; 1 Corinthians 15:41-50; John 15:12-27
PRAY: Collect for Easter Thursday, the Book of Common Prayer
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.
DO: Share a photo for the photo-a-day festival!
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. To get the photo-sharing party started, I’ve created an eight-day social media challenge for the first week of Eastertide. Use the prompts as simply or creatively as you’d like, add the hashtag #practiceresurrection2023 and tag me @tamarahillmurphy on IG or @asacramentallife on FB.
Can’t wait to practice resurrection together this week, friends!
Christ is risen! Christ is risen indeed!
Tamara
You might also enjoy: 50 Ways to Celebrate the Great 50 Days of Eastertide! Choose 1 idea or 50, but whatever you do, do it with gusto! You can read here for a brief description of the liturgical season of Eastertide, and see previous Eastertide posts here.
*Sunday Scripture readings are taken from Year A of the Book of Common Prayer 2019 (Anglican Church of North America). Daily Scripture readings are taken from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and include both Morning and Evening Psalms (Year 1)