Milestones (Dispatching)

[mrs_tubbs]

Starting off with a wild generalisation but … I suspect that most people’s main contact with church / clergy is during life’s milestones - hatching, batching or dispatching.  Or during high days and holidays - annual church visit during Christmas or Easter.  Sunday attendance is for those of us who are Overly Keen.  (I’m not getting into the whole

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[maddarilke]

Posts like this one, and not just fandom of The One, are a big reason why I'm happy we're friends. It's incredibly calming to me to read them and they give me courage.

[mrs_tubbs]

Thank you. :) I'm glad we're friends as well and really appreciate / respect the way you just get on with stuff and make the best of things. (Am trying to be better at that!)

[maddarilke]

You're very kind--I'm surprised you think that of me, as I always feel like I dwell, but thank you. I'm so grateful for your friendship. xo

[hkneale]

I like Easter. It is good to meditate upon all the events we celebrate.

What I like most is remembering the Atonement in the Garden of Gesthemane. So many people seem to gloss over that Very Important Event, but, like Christ did so many years ago, I like to take a quiet moment and ponder its significance.

[mrs_tubbs]

One doesn't make sense without the other - and I always try and remember that the Garden was the point when Christ made the choice. One of the (few) things I liked about Scorese's "Last Temptation of Christ" was the reminder that Christ was human as well as divine. And maybe one of the temptations in the Garden was the one where he could have given it all up and taken over Joseph's business, got married, had a family and hung out with John and Peter down the pub.

[oraetlabora2008]

Dear Mrs. T,

Just a quick note to send Blessings on the Triduum: Holy Thursday; Good Friday; Holy Saturday/ Easter Vigil/Easter Sunday.

This is the first time in 8 years that I haven't worked as a minister in a formal capacity and I know who stressful, busy and chaotic Holy Week can be for Mr. T and his colleagues.

And yes, Easter week off is the only way to survive!

The only stress I will be experiencing is remembering how to fix Easter dinner after 8 year away!

And organizing an Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday for some small children in my life now that mine is 18.

But as I'm always reminded, we need to get through the Crucifixion in order to get to the Resurrection.

Tonight on Holy Thursday we will be washing one another's feet. This can be such a profoundly moving, humbling and reconciling ritual.

And on Easter Sunday. "Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen! Alleluia! Alleluia!"

xxxdmania

[fedoralady]

Thank you, Tubbs, for this lovely reminder of the season. This will be our first Easter without my mother and Benny's father, and so it will be bittersweet. Yet I take such comfort in knowing they both had strong faith and were ready to go home . . . and we will all see each other again one glorious day.

I plan to attend the Good Friday service tomorrow at Saint Thomas Episcopal Church. The local ministerial association does weekly Lenten services culminating in tomorrow's service. It's a beautiful Old World church where I have many dear friends, and even though I am a Southern Baptist, I've become sort of an adopted Episcopalian over the years. ( :

Christ is risen, indeed!!

[mrs_tubbs]

He is risen indeed!

Hope you have a wonderful Easter

[karen747]

This was really wonderful. Thank you very much for writing it and for posting the links. "The Priests In Concert At Armagh Cathedral" aired during the December and March PBS station Pledge Drives across the U.S., but I had never read any of their writings or opinions before. He seems to be a very down-to-earth, pratical man, that one could really talk to, and was very forthright in his answers re: modern issues in the Church, etc. Thanks again

[mrs_tubbs]

That sounds fantastic! Have a wonderful Easter!