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-title: Why Easter is the best week of the year
-description: >-
-    Based on a talk given to my colleagues at
-    <a href="https://www.scottlogic.co.uk">Scott Logic</a> for Maundy
-    Thursday, 2024.
-pubDate: 2024-03-30
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-
-As you might have noticed, it is Easter this week! So I'd like to take five or
-five minutes of your time to share why I – and about two billion other humans
-going about the place just now – think Easter is the best week of the year. And
-it's got something to do with a special Christian ritual called Communion.
-
-Communion, at its heart, is about as simple a ritual as you can get. You get
-together with a bunch of other people. You share some bread, and you share some
-wine.
-
-And it’s because of this ritual that so many people regard Easter as the best
-week of the year. I want to explain to you why that is, and more than that, I
-want to convince you that Easter is the best week of the year for you, too!
-
-If you’ve passed by _The Hub_ at the top of Johnstone Terrace here in
-Edinburgh recently, you might have notice the banner which is draped over
-the railings just now – reading, ‘RITUALS THAT UNITE US.’
-
-Now, that might seem like an odd idea. But wouldn’t that be great, if we
-actually had a ritual which could unite us? Because the world could surely do
-with a bit more unity right now. The world seems so divided, and sometimes it
-seems like there’s no hope for real unity.
-
-We can see that in our politics. We’re divided about foreign policy, about
-taxation policy, about trade policy, about environmental policy.
-
-And the conflicts that we have in this country seem pretty trivial when we
-remember the conflicts that are playing out in other parts of the world right
-now. In Israel and Gaza. In Sudan. In Russia and Ukraine.
-
-And there’s plenty of conflict happening on the small scale, too. Often it’s the
-smallest-scale conflicts which hurt us the most deeply. Your landlord pushes you
-around. That friend you trusted like no-one else in the world lets you down. The
-partner or spouse you loved like no-one else in the world – you end up fighting.
-
-It’s possible that you’re going to be reading this right now with a heavy heart
-because of a broken relationship in their life. And doesn’t that hurt more than
-anything else we know?
-
-When the world is groaning so heavily under the weight of conflict, and some
-banner on _The Hub_ tells us a ritual can unite us, that seems so out of
-proportion to the scale of the problem, doesn’t it? What can a ritual do? A bit
-of old superstition? An excuse to divide people, maybe – what can a ritual do
-to unite us?
-
-Well, two thousand years ago, a man had a meal with his friends. Together, they
-shared a meal of bread and wine – which, in that time and place, was the most
-ordinary meal imaginable.
-
-And yet, in that most ordinary event imaginable, something was happening which
-was totally unimaginable. As this man, Jesus, shared the elements of this meal,
-he made some extraordinary statements about what he was doing: ‘take, eat, this
-is my body’ – ‘drink this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant.’
-(The word ‘covenant’ means a promise.)
-
-He told them he wasn’t just giving them bread and wine, he was giving his body
-and his blood, and a promise.
-
-Before Jesus ate another meal, he was flogged and nailed to a cross. His blood
-was spilt and his body broken, even to death.
-
-And yet, that wasn’t the end of the Easter story. Because three days later,
-mourners turned up at Jesus’ tomb to pay their respects, and found the tomb
-empty, the stone rolled away. Then they became the first of crowds of
-incredulous eyewitnesses to see Jesus, the same Jesus who was killed on a cross,
-alive.
-
-Some magic trick, right? But this matters a hell of a lot more than just some
-magic trick. Because Jesus became the first person in history to prove that you
-really can both have your cake and eat it. He gave his life, and lived! As a
-result, we can have his life and our own. We can join with Jesus through the
-ritual of Communion which he established, and thereby, through Jesus’ body, join
-together with everyone else who takes part in that ritual, as one body. Then we
-can start living our brand-new, full-fat, original-recipe life overflowing with
-generosity where we too can both give our life to others and enjoy it ourselves.
-Indeed, Jesus taught us and showed us that it’s precisely by giving our lives to
-others that we get to truly live ourselves.
-
-This is why, in spite of all the division which persists in the world today, two
-billion people regard this week as the best week of the year. Two billion
-people, from every nation on Earth, speaking thousands of languages, of every
-age and culture and gender and race, who defy the divisions of this world to
-insist on joining together as one body in Jesus.
-
-Because Jesus’ new covenant, his promise to all of us, is that in an apparently
-hopelessly divided world, there exists real hope for unity. And that’s why
-Easter is the best week of the year.