Easter

Easter is the focal point of the Church year. I am glad it has not become so commercialised as Christmas, although chocolate manufacturers and supermarkets are trying. I remember as a child in Trinity (part of Edinburgh) decorating our hard boiled eggs and then going to roll them down the hill at Star Bank Park. The symbolism there is so much closer to the rolling away of the stone at Christ's tomb than any chocolate egg.

The Church was packed today, more like the numbers we expect at Holy Communion. Some people come regularly, some intermittently, but most to the major events in the Church year. It was a joyful service, with the Sunday School and Bible Class singing hymns and doing readings. The Sunday School pupils had prepared butterflies, one for every family - such a lot of hard work.

I wish my faithful reader (or two or three) a very Happy Easter.