Waymarks out of Covid - Easter
Easter! Ascension! Pentecost! A succession of waymarks from where we plot our routes out of Covid towards the unfolding future. In June when ( or should that be if?) we are finally free, we will be 15 months older. And some of us were old when we went into lockdown for the first time! Here our church congregations tend to be elderly, so much so that this 78 year old is part of the youth group! What I am saying is, “the future of the Church in our rural villages uncertain.” You could be accused of wishful thinking if you imagined it might have any future at all! Easter is a reminder of the impossible possibility of good news beyond our wildest dreams. In the early dawn of our (Christian) resurrection faith, the doing this with bread and wine in upper room and around the kitchen table, revealed the risen Lord at the breaking of the bread. In the Easters of 2020 and 2021 some of us have had parallel experiences - by the wonders of 21st C technology, around Archbishop Justine’s table