Welcome to A.D. now, Anno Domini “in the year of the Lord”!
It’s Easter Weekend!!!
What better way to celebrate than to share about Last Sunday which was Palm Sunday. We celebrated, and went on a “Walk with Jesus” and I wanted to share some of our photos with all of you, and be able to say Happy Resurrection Day everyone!
When we got there, I was taken on a tour, got to paint a cross, was given a wooden cross, given communion, listened to someone sing a story, got to walk a labyrinth and place a rock that I chose to write the word hope on and place it in the center once I got there, and I was greeted with food afterwards. It was great!
Good Friday is passed. It’s still Easter weekend…
However you are honoring Christ, and celebrating really depends on the religion and or individual to be honest.
Good Friday is a Christian holy day observing the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary. It is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum. It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, Great and Holy Friday (also Holy and Great Friday). (Via Wikipedia, for full Wikipedia click HERE.)
Easter Sunday is the day Jesus Christ/Yeshua rose from the his tomb in the year 30-33 A D. and why A.D. is known as Anno Domini “in the year of the Lord”.
I say 33 A.D. because he was 33 when he was crucified. B.C.E. is before Christ era.
He lives, HE IS RISEN!!!
If you are saved, born again, and or new to Christianity as a religion, know the actual Church is made up of the Bride of Christ. Us as individuals, and true believers are The Bride of Christ, and this is what, and how we are able to move mountains with the faith of a mustard seed. “For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them” (Matthew 18:20) KJV.”
Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD (or 33 A.D.). It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus Christ, preceded by Lent (or Great Lent), a 40-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. (Via Wikipedia)
I want to pray and give thanks God for allowing Jesus to die on the cross for our sins, so that we may be forgiven, and be able to return to our heavenly Father once again. We as humans fall short of grace daily. It is only by and through his grace we are saved. Thank you God for allowing us the opportunity to be in your presence. Keep us safe and out of harms way, in the name of your son whom died for us, Jesus Christ, Amen. Hosana, Hosana. He saves, He saves.
Ephesians 2:8-9 (NIV)
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.”
1 Peter 2:24
“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
Romans 5:6-8
6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Matthew 12:40
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 27:50-54
And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and[e] went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely he was the Son of God!”
1 Peter 1:3
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Romans 6:9
We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
Luke 24:5-8
“Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’” Then they remembered his words.
How great is our GOD?!?!?! Happy Easter and happy April!! This is definitely a great way to end one month and start a new one! God bless!
~ Your Host D.
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