npub1nj…k7fqx on Nostr: > Maybe Easter will revive and grow again once it has ceased to be officially ...
> Maybe Easter will revive and grow again once it has ceased to be officially sanctioned and marked with public holidays. Perhaps those of us who still seek to be Christian should welcome the retreat of the Church – away from power and status and into an embattled, unpopular and often despised corner, where it must fight for its beliefs against the scorn that its founder so often faced, and overcame.
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> Today, I shall attend a heartbreakingly beautiful choral version of St John’s account of Jesus’s death, and sing, or in my case croak, the mysterious, bloodstained hymn When I Survey The Wondrous Cross before going out into streets, which are crammed with shoppers who are quite oblivious to the majesty of the great day.
You can keep the rest of it – buns, eggs, bunnies, bonnets and legs of lamb, the lot. A good dose of gloom is salve to the English soul. But I can easily see why not many others want to join me.
#christian #easter
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> Today, I shall attend a heartbreakingly beautiful choral version of St John’s account of Jesus’s death, and sing, or in my case croak, the mysterious, bloodstained hymn When I Survey The Wondrous Cross before going out into streets, which are crammed with shoppers who are quite oblivious to the majesty of the great day.
You can keep the rest of it – buns, eggs, bunnies, bonnets and legs of lamb, the lot. A good dose of gloom is salve to the English soul. But I can easily see why not many others want to join me.
#christian #easter