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I love Easter Sunday in worship. The music is beautiful and uplifting. The church is full with members and visitors. All the flowers make for a beautiful sanctuary. Having that time in our service when so many people come forward to sing the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah with our choir is just soul-stirring. And in our church this year, we had the tremendous bonus of having that wonderful liturgical art piece appear for the first time on Easter Sunday morning. Easter, and the worship service that Sunday morning, is inspiring to me.

But then what? We don’t live on Easter Sunday every day. Once Easter is past, do things simply revert to the same old world? Or does the fact that Jesus was raised from death change things for us? John Buchanan is the editor of Christian Century Magazine and the former Senior Pastor at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago. He wrote an editorial in the April 18, 2012 issue of Christian Century which touched on these questions. The following is part of what he said.

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This article appeared in the April, 2012 issue of Sojourners, a magazine to which I subscribe.  The author, Sister Deanna Ortiz, OSU, founded the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International, co-authored The Blindfold’s Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth, and now serves as Pax Christi USA’s internship director. 

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In the worship services from Palm Sunday through Easter, we will remember and think about some of the events in Jesus’ life during this period we call Holy Week.  We hope you will join us regularly for worship during this very special week in the life of the church of Jesus Christ.

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