
April 2019
2019 Easter Celebration
According to the Gospels it was at sunrise on the first Easter Day – the 3rd day following Jesus’ death – that the women who followed Jesus found the great stone blocking his tomb had been rolled away, and the tomb empty. The Gospel of John (20.14-16) relates how Mary Magdalene meets Jesus by the tomb, but does not at first recognise him, taking him to be a gardener. Finally realising that he has indeed risen from the dead, as…