Easter 2020
Resurrection of Christ Easter did not come with a bang or a shout or a parade. It came quietly in the night while the world slept. Today Easter usually comes with songs of praise, extra pageantry, and some of the richest liturgical prayers and acclamations found throughout the year. Easter arrives at the end of a long Holy Week where the faithful experience the ups and downs of the first (unknown and unwittingly lived) Holy Week; and it is usually glorious filled with joyful and loud shouts of "Alleluia! Chris is Risen! He is Risen indeed! Alleluia!" It's the day the Alleluia returns. But, today, Easter 2020 came not so much with a joyful shout, but with a quiet cry of relief. It came with a cry of faith deeper than usual. The truth of the Resurrection touches the deepest part of our souls and, this year, its timeless truth touched deeper that ever before. There's a lot of chatter online and in person about the state of the church. And by the church I m
