Happy Easter Season...Tell a Joke!

Easter Season is my favorite time of year for humor. Here is a YouTube piece that sums up Church History in a mere two minutes and thirty-three seconds. Enjoy!
Please note: A single click on the play button below will allow you to view the video on this page. A double click will take you to the YouTube website where other works of this comedian are posted. One church member has alerted me to the fact that while this video is "good clean fun", other videos by him which are posted closeby are fairly bawdy. Please be forewarned and look at the video right here with a single click. O the joys of the internet!

Brick Church Sunday is Tommorrow - April 19th, 2009

...and we hope you can join us. It will be a great day. Our bishop, The Rt. Rev. Mark J. Lawrence and Mrs Lawrence (Allison) will be with us. The service will be RT I and Confirmation (go Gabbe!) and Reception.

The service begins at 11:00 am. Bring a covered dish, your most joyful spirits and join us.

The picnic will still be on even if it is raining. In the event of SEVERE weather (tornadoes), the picnic will be moved to the Morrison House (the parish house of the Chapel of Ease - directions to the right).

For directions from Charleston, click on the link to the right.

Jesus Christ is Risen Today! Alleluia!

A Most Blessed Easter to you and yours ! May you be deeply enlivened by the Resurrection power of the Risen Christ.

Benvenuto di Giovanni - "The Resurrection", probably 1491 Samuel H. Kress Collection

Holy Saturday

The church is dark now. The altar is stripped and bare. Some are getting up and leaving in silence. Others remain kneeling, looking into the darkness. Holy Saturday is ahead, the most quiet day of the year. The silence of that silent night, holy night, the night when God was born was broken by the sounds of a baby, a mother’s words of comfort and angels in concert. Holy Saturday, by contrast, is the sound of perfect silence. Yesterday’s mockery, the good thief’s prayer, the cry of dereliction—all that is past now. Mary has dried her tears, and the whole creation is still, waiting for what will happen next.Some say that on Holy Saturday Jesus went to hell in triumph, to free the souls long imprisoned there. Others say he descended into a death deeper than death, to embrace in his love even the damned. We do not know. Scripture, tradition and pious writings provide hints and speculations, but about this most silent day it is perhaps best to observe the silence. One day I expect he will tell us all about it. When we are able to understand what we cannot now even understand why we cannot understand.--Richard John Neuhaus (1936-2009)

Good Friday Around the World

Every year the BBC publishes photographs of Christians around the world marking Good Friday. This one is from Pakistan. Take some time and have a look. The rest can be found in the full article at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7994131.stm . More pictures are here http://blog.beliefnet.com/viamedia/2009/04/good-friday-around-the-world.html

A Poem for Maundy Thursday

The Last Supper by Ranier Maria Rilke

On seeing Leonardi Da Vinci's "Last Supper", Milan, 1904.

Translated by Albert Ernest Fleming

They are assembled, astonished and disturbed

round him, who like a sage resolved his fate,

and now leaves those to whom he most belonged,

leaving and passing by them like a stranger.

The loneliness of old comes over him

which helped mature him for his deepest acts;

now will he once again walk through the olive grove,

and those who love him still will flee before his sight.

To this last supper he has summoned them,

and (like a shot that scatters birds from trees)

their hands draw back from reaching for the loaves

upon his word: they fly across to him;

they flutter, frightened, round the supper table

searching for an escape. But he is present

everywhere like an all-pervading twilight-hour.

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Holy Week , Easter Day and Brick Church Calendar

April 9 - Maundy Thursday – 7:00 PM - Foot Washing & Holy Eucharist

April 10 - Good Friday – Noon – Liturgy of the Day

April 12- Easter Day -10:00 AM – Flowering of the Cross followed by Festal Eucharist.

April 18 – Saturday 9 til – Set up at Brick Church - All hands needed and welcome!

April 19th – 11:00 AM – Brick Church – Confirmation and Holy Eucharist, Rt. I – Celebrant – The Rt. Rev Mark Lawrence – followed by Covered Dish Picnic