Posted in Church, tagged #ClapforOurCarers, #lentowrimo, EasterMeansHope.com, Holy Week, rainbow, trombone, Vicarage, Vicarage life, window on 9 April, 2020| 1 Comment »
Tonight we made a rainbow for our rainbow shaped window. This Holy Week is the week we especially remember the hope that we have. We are joining with EasterMeansHope.com to share the hope of Christ with our neighbours.
We had the window ready for this evening’s #ClapforOurCarers, and the Joker joined in with extra noise tonight – a rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow on his trombone.
Posted in Church, tagged #lentowrimo, 1 Peter 1, daisies, exhaustion, flowers, foodbank, grass, Holy Week, lockdown, Vicarage life on 7 April, 2020| 2 Comments »
I didn’t manage to finish a blog last night – the first #lentowrimo post I’ve missed. My brain just wasn’t functioning – the third week of lockdown has felt exhausting and overwhelming. We were meant to be on holiday this week – at Word Alive with thousands of other believers. But here we are, still in the Vicarage and not in glamorous Prestatyn, hearing helpful Bible talks and meeting up with dear friends.
We’re here serving the parish online and over the phone, helping at the foodbank and wrangling Zoom with people who struggle with technology. We’re here following the way of Christ. We’re here, looking to our Lord, who trod the way of the cross, exhausted and overwhelmed. So this Holy Week, I’m hobbling along, aware of my fragility, like the daisies which have bloomed in the Secret Field this week. But the blessing of Holy Week is that it goes through the cross to the resurrection. The perishable becomes imperishable. The grass withers and the flowers fall but the Word of the Lord endures forever.
![[Text on yellow disc over picture of white/yellow daisies on green grass] For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, ‘All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures for ever.’](https://thevicarswife.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/1peter1v23to25.jpeg?w=500)
Posted in Church, tagged #lentowrimo, BCP, Book of Common Prayer, collect, Easter, Father, Holy Week, humility, Jesus, love, meditation, patience on 4 April, 2020| Leave a Comment »
We are approaching a strange and hard Easter. A strange and hard Holy Week. This collect from the Book of Common Prayer is preparing me for that – reminding me of the Father’s tender love, helping me to recall the great humility of the Lord Jesus and challenging me to be patient. These are what I need to meditate on this week. I need to meditate with gratitude on love, humility and patience.
![[Black text on yellow starburst, photo of blackthorn blossom behind] ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who, of thy tender love towards mankind, hast sent thy Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, to take upon him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the cross, that all mankind should follow the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant, that we may both follow the example of his patience, and also be made partakers of his resurrection; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.](https://thevicarswife.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/bcpcollectsundaynextbeforeeaster.jpeg?w=494&h=610)
Posted in Church, Craft, tagged activities, Children, Christianity, Church, Craft, Easter, faith, Fun, gospel, Holy Week, Jesse Tree, Kids, Lent, message, preparation, Resurrection Eggs, toddlers on 17 March, 2014| 1 Comment »
I’ve not been fasting from blogging for Lent. Just a normal blogflop due to life and everything. But here I am again. With some fun pics of my friend Kirby, who made some Resurrection Eggs last week in preparation for the fortnight leading up to Easter.
Resurrection eggs are a sort of Jesse Tree for Easter and a creative way to get kids to engage with the wonderful gospel story at the heart of our faith. Kirby used the verses preprepared on this blog. There’s plenty of time to gather yourself an egg box and some plastic eggs. You can use 15 eggs (as Meredith does), a dozen (as I did) or even a simple six. Why not give it a go?
Posted in Faith, tagged 22 Words, Abraham Piper, Bible, BibleGateway.com, Christianity, cross, disciples, Easter, faith, gospels, graphics, harmonisation, Holy Week, Holy Week timeline, illustration, Jesus, openbible.info, picture, resurrection, visual, visualisation on 20 April, 2011| 3 Comments »
I’m sure a bunch of you have already seen this around the blogosphere, but I only spotted it yesterday. It’s a really cool picture of where everyone was in Holy Week – Jesus, the disciples, the Jewish leaders, the crowds, the guards etc. Am wondering how to get this printed out much bigger – A0 would be cool.
BibleGateway, who published it, have more details, as do openbible, who designed it.
[HT Abraham Piper, as usual]
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