Ah, Lent has come to an end once again, with the happy season of Easter: the celebration of Jesus coming back from the dead – the transformation, as Father Ken, the priest at Saint Stephens in-the-Field said in his sermon today, of the cross as a political symbol of Roman terror to a religious symbol of Christian hope.
You don’t have to be religious to appreciate the need for symbols of hope to lift us up in the darkest times, but if you are religious, you can see how that symbol could have special power – and if you are Christian, you can feel how that person’s special power makes him worthy of being a symbol of the life we want to live
This is the reason that Episcopal crosses tend to be empty – they’re not symbols of Jesus’ crucifixion and death, they’re symbols of his overcoming death, returning to life, and remaining with us in Spirit – as Father Ken said, Holy Spirit, with a capital S.
Happy Easter, everyone.
-the Centaur
Pictured: the children of St. Stephens in-the-Field, running towards the St. Stephens TARDIS before it departs for the annual field trip back to the first Easter day. (Axually, it’s an Easter egg hunt).
