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Part Four: Easter Sunday

By John Dennison >> 2 min read
Arts, Photography, Music Christian Year

Poet and Senior Teaching Fellow John Dennison and artist and staff alumni Juanita Madden bring you Easter Sunday’s offering. The Collects and Readings are taken from A New Zealand Prayer Book, Lectionary Cycle Year A.

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Easter Sunday, by Juanita Madden
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Poem for Easter Sunday

By John Dennison

Self-made, perhaps; definitely wealthy,
with a seat on the council, and a plot set aside on the hill;
but when it came to it, Joseph of Arimathea

could offer only a freshly dug hole:
his tomb, his anticipated end
now made the corpse-house of all hope.

The dark. The stone. Poor gifts for a friend
above all friends. And yet, it turns out, so right:
all matter sings, the dark itself upends

to welcome in the flesh the Light of Light,
this breathing the full-bodied house of hope,
making a throne-room of the rich man’s empty slot.

Sing to yourself; pile your wealth in a heap
and burn it and you along with it; but you cannot
out-give the Giver. For he has made this ripe

world his love’s language, the manger his cot.

For reflection

Readings:
Psalm 118:1–2, 14–24
Acts 10:34–43 or Jeremiah 31:1–6
Colossians 3:1–4 or Acts 10:34–43
John 20:1–18 or Matthew 28:1–10

Collect:
Glorious Lord of Life,
we praise you,
that by the mighty resurrection of your Son,
you have delivered us from sin and death
and made your whole creation new;
grant that we who celebrate with joy
Christ’s rising from the dead,
may be raised from the death of sin
to the life of righteousness;
for he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God for ever.
Amen.

Question:
This is a day of celebration for us who have received new life! How might you remember and celebrate this day and feast with those around you?

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