When and how do we celebrate Resurrection? It is a natural question for missionaries in Russia in years like this one, when the calendars of the Russian Orthodox Church the western churches differ by so much that we celebrated Easter just as our brothers and sisters were becoming adapted to the rhythms of the Great Fast (Orthodox Lent).
Being in Lent and Easter at the same time - this situation, it seems to me, reflects the state Christians are to be in at all times - standing before both the cross and the empty tomb, meditating and acting upon both the reality of death in our world and the anticipation of God’s coming kingdom.
In these spring days, I wish you an ever-deepening sense of what has been done for us in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the subsequent joy and new hope that only the Resurrection life can promise. Bradn
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