EASTER SUNDAY

 

Easter Sunday

Is the most important date

In the Christian calendar

And Celebrates

The Resurrection

Of Jesus Christ

And beginning

The Great Fifty Days

Of Eastertide

CRUCIFIX

 

You were the love

Of the world

And we nailed you to a cross

We tried to kill love

With nail in hand

And spear in flesh

But we failed

You pleaded for us

Apologised for us

Then you died for us

You’re the love

Of the world

HOLY SATURDAY

 

Holy Saturday

Is not a Mass

But a time of

Prayer and fasting

And meditating on Christ’s

Passion and Death

His Descent into Hell

And his Resurrection

EASTER VIGIL

 

The Easter Vigil,

Is the longest and most solemn

It begins after sundown

With The Service of Light

When a new fire is kindled

Symbolising the Light of salvation

Which is used to light

The Paschal candle

Symbolising the Light of Christ

Reminding all that

Christ is Light and life

HOT CROSS BUNS

 

I’ve always loved hot cross buns

But they give me heartburn

You can eat one and it’s gone

But like the Lord they return

EASTERTIDE

 

Eastertide or Paschaltide

Is a festal season

That begins on Easter Sunday

And lasts for fifty days

Ending on Pentecost Sunday

Celebrated throughout

The Christian world

As a single joyful feast

MAUNDY THURSDAY

Maundy Thursday

The sixth day of Holy week

Which remembers the Maundy

The day when Jesus

Washed the feet of his disciples

As well as the last supper

On the feast of Passover

And marks the start

Of the Easter Triduum,

That commemorates

The passion, death,

And resurrection of Christ