‘Happy Easter, and a Merry Christmas?’
As we continue to celebrate the season of Eastertide, and the joy of knowing the transforming power of God’s love that is revealed on the Cross and through the Empty Tomb, this week also saw us mark the feast of the Annunciation – the first of the cycle of feasts that will lead us to Christmas. This coincidence of feasts highlights two essential truths of the Christian faith – the truths of the incarnation and resurrection. We believe that God, who is eternal and cannot be
constrained in time and place, becomes known to us through the incarnation and reveals to us something of the wonder and beauty of eternity through the triumph of the resurrection…