Sunday, April 16, 2017

Easter...

...and glorious bells pealing out into the sunshine of an April morning...

We took part in the Easter Vigil here - the Easter fire, the full drama of the story from Genesis onwards, glittering candles, glorious music, a packed church...  the final hearty hymn ringing with Alleluias, joyful greetings in the garden and the parish priest distributing chocolate eggs...

This morning, cheery faces painted on to breakfast eggs, children in new clothes for Easter morning Mass, eggs to be hunted in the garden, a multi-generation family lunch...

Alleluia!

2 comments:

brendan said...

Thanks Joanna. You don't know or realise how but thanks for helping to bring me home(tears whilst I type). Have a holy and wonderful Easter. He is risen.

Malcolm said...

My favourite was always smarties' egg.
Somehow, after not eating chocolate for 40 days, smarties taste more chocolately than other chocolates. They are also usually packaged inside the egg, which I try to insist on (but can't always, it's just so rare to get the sweets actually inside the egg these days that sometimes one must compromise).
Come to think of it, there's maybe a niche in the market.