Every Sunday Is a Little Easter
The Christian liturgical calendar follows the cycle of the life of Christ – drawing us in. We begin the Church year with Advent: a penitential and anticipatory season, looking forward to celebration of the Incarnation, a fact of history, but also anticipating the Second Coming of our Lord in glory. And so through Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, and the season of “ordinary time” after Pentecost. Within the overall cycle of the year, Easter is the pivot point around which the whole Christian year turns, the central point of our lives as Christians.
Although we only celebrate Easter in full force once a year, we return to it each week in our worship. Every Sunday is the Lord’s Day, a “little Easter,” celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord. Each week, we are brought back to the one-time, historic event of Christ’s death and resurrection; each week, we are sent back out into the world, to live out His gospel. May the cycle of the seasons remind us that our Lord is the lord of both history and eternity; may we worship Him with penitent, joyful, anticipatory hearts, each week, each year – looking toward His coming again in glory.
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Dr Holly Ordway came to Christ through reason, in the pursuit of truth. "In your hearts honor Christ as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect" (1 Peter 15).
She writes about her journey from atheism to orthodox Christian faith in her book "Not God's Type: A Rational Academic Finds a Radical Faith" (Moody Publishers).
