Women at the Tomb (1440-41) Fresco Convento di San Marco, Florence
Sunday, April 12, 2009 7:00 – 8:00 pm
MetroWest Performing Arts Center
The women went at dawn with fragrant spices to anoint Jesus in his tomb. Instead of his beloved, broken body, they were the ones anointed with the message of his rising.
Jesus’ followers – women and men alike – were anointed to spread the good news of his rising; the triumph of love over the power of death.
OpenSpirit, Easter Evening. A different way to ponder the meaning of The Rising. As we light the lamps of evening, our hopes and fears reflect the mystery and awe of Easter dawn. We gather as disciples, our own lives transformed by the power of God’s new life springing up in unexpected and miraculous ways. Love is come again; let us lose ourselves in it.
So, come, people of the resurrection; let us gather. With poem and song and painting, let us ponder. The long day is over. It is accomplished – Lent, our sojourn in the desert. Maundy Thursday: poignant, bittersweet; Good Friday: piercing, thirsting. The wonder of Easter morning, our singing triumphal. But what of the evening? On Easter evening, with what light do we look back at the meaning of the dawn?
How are you transformed by resurrection? What is rising, in your life, in our world? How are you anointed, in your own unique and precious way, to be an apostle – here and now, to spread the Good News? Easter evening, we gather around the table, as we always do. And Christ’s body is beloved and broken and risen and shared all at the same time. And we are anointed with the sweet spice of new life.