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(This post was written prior to 2016, in a blog entitled “Jubal’s Jottings.”)
I went to church on Easter Sunday…with a fair amount of anticipation of a triumphal of Resurrection Sunday. I ended up with some thoughts similar to my post-Christmas blog. Where was Easter? The service I attended had one verse of “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today.” That’s it…one verse! Now I know there’s no law about having to sing that song on Easter to make it Easter, but I didn’t get much else that would have made me feel like I’d been to church for Easter Sunday…you know, resurrection! I guess I‘m getting old and out of touch, but I want something more than the same praise choruses on Easter…and I really don’t want someone teaching me soprano, alto, and tenor parts to a song in the middle of the service! I know there’s no law, but it didn’t feel like Easter to me. One redeeming factor…one of my very lovely daughters was in the praise team!
Then in discussing Easter with my other daughter, I discovered that her church made no mention…as in zero mention…of Palm Sunday on Palm Sunday. It was the Sunday to culminate a fundraising campaign. No mention at all of Palm Sunday! AND, they were not doing a Good Friday service either! So, is this the new thing now? No palms, no Good Friday, and minimal Easter?
I’m sure that all of these churches are very aware that Easter Sunday is the beginning of the Easter season. Therefore, I guess they’ll all be doing Easter in the next few weeks, right? Yeah, right! They’ll do Pentecost and Ascension and Lent and Advent, too. Sure they will! I know there’s no law, but it sure would add some substance to the life of the church if there was a bit more attention to these life-changing events to commemorate here and there.
Jubal, sorry I went off, but I was just expecting some Easter celebration. Guess you didn’t have that problem!