Welcome to the Parish of Modbury and Golden Grove

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Easter Day

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HE IS RISEN! HE IS RISEN, INDEED!

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Matthew’s account of the resurrection might be my favourite because it is literally earth shaking. More than any other of the gospel accounts of what happened as the first day of the week was dawning, this account describes the resurrection as an apocalyptic event with immediate public consequences. There is no missing the point here that what happened when

Jesus was raised from the dead shocked witnesses and affected (shook!) the world itself.

 

Some 20th century theologians focus on the resurrection as an event that took place in the life of the disciples, a mysterious personal event, a spiritual transformation that led to faith in the crucified Jesus as the most profound sign of God’s presence in the world. But I don’t think Matthew is letting us get away with thinking that this is a purely spiritual transformation. There’s an earthquake, and angel descending in the sight of the women and

the guards and rolling away the stone. The actual, heavy, solid physically real stone. The guards were so terrified that they became like dead men. Fainted? Paralysed with fear? These are Roman soldiers, they’ve waged war and crucified people. They were not going to be terrified by anything that wasn’t very real and physical and concrete. This was not a private theological realisation or transformation event happening within the spiritual lives of the disciples…Oh it’s a mystery all right but it testifies to the very real inbreaking of God’s reign in the physical real actual world we are walking around in.

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Easter services. 

Maundy Thursday, 2nd April 7.00pm

Good Friday, 3rd April 9.00am

Easter Sunday 5th April 9.00am

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Usual weekly services and activities:

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Sunday:        Holy Communion 8.00 am

                       Holy Communion 10am

Monday:       Bible Study 10.00 am 

Tuesday:       Holy Communion 8.30 am

                        Community Garden 9.30 am

                        Christian meditation 9;30-10am alternate Tuesday from

                        21 Jan 2025

Wednesday: Bible Study 10.00 am

                        Fortnightly Foodbank   10.00 am

Thursday:      Holy Communion 10.00 am

Friday:            Community Garden 9.30 am

                        

 

1st Tuesday of the month Community Garden BBQ 11.30 am

1st and 3rd Sunday of the month Bari Service 11.30 am

2nd Thursday of the month Men's Group 7.30 pm

1st Friday of the month "Come as You Are" - Women's Fellowship 10-12 ​

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