Reverend Angela McNeill and the congregation at St Michael and All Angels Anglican Church at Moggill invite everyone to join us for services after Easter
The Sentence
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 Peter 1:3
Reflection from the Reverend Rob Sutherland CSC
My great thanks to everyone involved with our Holy Week and Easter celebrations. I know it was crowded on Good Friday and Easter Sunday but for this I rejoice (and am grateful for everyone’s cooperation and sharing hymn books).
These, ‘special’ services of worship from Palm Sunday through Holy Week and Easter help us to focus on the amazing actions of our Loving God in the world. Jesus’s birth was not witnessed by many, but the events of Holy Week were witnessed by tens of thousands. Kings, governors, priests, soldiers, disciples and many, many thousands of ordinary people saw Jesus enter Jerusalem; saw him hang on a cross until dead and buried. Many of these also witnessed him alive after Easter Sunday.
Easter morning, Jesus’s resurrection does not just defeat death; despite the horrendous pain, coming back to life was for God the easy part. Jesus’s true purpose is to reunite us with God; to restore the personal, loving relationship with God for which we were created.
I know that for many of us and those around us it feels after Easter as if nothing has changed.
God wants us to be changed.
The world around us needs to see something life giving, hopeful, joyful in the lives of each of us as believers and followers of Jesus who lived and died and was raised from the dead by God.
God wants Easter to be life-giving and, in the next few weeks, this is what we will be exploring.
‘Christ has died’ and ‘Christ is risen’ should mean something in our hearts and in our lives.
Grace and peace and hope and life,
Rob
Coming Events at St Michael and All Angels
Holy Week and Easter Services
Easter II – Sunday 12 April
8:30am – Holy Communion *
8.30am Morning Prayer and Bible Study
8:30am – Holy Communion *
* Also known as the Lord's Supper or The Eucharist(St Michael and All Angels Anglican Church is located adjacent to Moggill State School at 3407 Moggill Road Moggill QLD 4070. Catch the 444 Bus to the Moggill terminus. The church is a short walk just past the 'new' Moggill State School. Originally our heritage church building was the original Moggill State School which is one of Queensland's earliest buildings opened in 1866.)
