| Easter Sunrise Service |
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Sunday, March 23 2008, 6:45am - 7:30am |
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Join us to welcome the sunrise on Easter morning. The service begins at 6:45 a.m.
Order
of Service
Opening Reading
In olden times the English people…calculated their months…after the
manner of the Greeks and the Romans, [the months] take their name from
the Moon, for the moon is called mona and each month monath.
… April, …Eosturmonath, … was once called after a goddess of theirs
named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month. Now
they designate that season by her name, calling the joys of the new
rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance.'
The Venerable Bede
Releasing the Quarters
Closing Reading
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day! For it is Life,
The very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the Verities
And Realities of your Existence;
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And Tomorrow is only a Vision;
But Today well lived
Makes every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of Dawn.
Kalidasa
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