Many of you have either read or seen movie adaptations of Victor Hugo’s 19th Century masterpiece, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. According to Hugo, the reason he originally began his novel was to bring awareness of Gothic architecture to his contemporaries in light of some less-than-beautiful trends in church buildings and renovations that were common…
“Alleluia! Christ is Risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!” This is the traditional greeting and response for the Easter season. We are here today to celebrate our Lord’s Resurrection. Indeed, there is a sense that every Sunday is a commemoration of the Resurrection, every Sunday is a little Easter. But Easter Sunday is that great…
Alleluia, Christ is risen. The Lord is risen indeed, Alleluia! This acclamation is the summary statement of what happened more than 2,000 years ago – our Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins but God raised him from the dead on the third day. For many people the resurrection of Jesus is something that happened several centuries ago that we…