The churches of the Newbury Deanery wish you a blessed Easter.
Celebrating Lent and Easter
Our Easter message is of hope – and don’t we need some real hope in these troubled times? Ours is a hope of resurrection, of love stronger than death and life beyond this physical life we share. We are not promised an easy life, but Jesus, “God with us”, who came at Christmas is still with us in the challenges of our lives.
In the week before Easter we remember the challenges Jesus faced – joy, betrayal, abandonment and death – real highs and lows to match our own. You don’t have to be a Christian to get a sense of that journey, with its varied feelings, so here are some things to try. Some of them involve sharing with other people, so if you are alone, do contact a church to put you in touch with someone to share with.
A prayer for Easter
Lord of all life and power,
who through the mighty resurrection of your Son
overcame the old order of sin and death
to make all things new in him:
grant that we, being dead to sin
and alive to you in Jesus Christ,
may reign with him in glory;
to whom with you and the Holy Spirit
be praise and honour, glory and might,
now and in all eternity.Amen