The Last and Final Reading

Today is the last and final reading from "A Time to Turn: Anglican Readings for Lent and Easter", by Christopher Webber, which our Lenten Wednesday Evening Class began reading what seems like an eternity ago. It comes from a sermon by Phillips Brooks on the Resurrection and, like so many readings in this little book, short and powerful:

"...What an amount of reverent and devoted study has been given to strange doctrines, such as the doctrine of the historic fall of man, or... There is no region in which all this is more true than in speculation about the life which lies beyind the grave. Nowhere does the difference between the healthiness of simplicity and the unhealthiness of complicated and elaborate curiosit so visibly appear. ... The dead are with God. O you who miss even today... the dear, familiar faces, believe and be more than satisfied with that."
A Christian's faith may be tested by its simplicity.

It has been an interesting, educational, contemplative and revealing journey this Lent and Easter. Thank you, Fr. Daniel.