A Cracking Easter Weekend!!

My Easter weekend began Good Friday morning with a Taize service at St Mark's.  Then it was off to London to meet up with students and go to see the Passion Play in Trafalgar Square.  The weather was fabulous and we enjoyed the walk from Victoria along The Mall, before joining thousands of others waiting for the play to begin.

And so the play begins ... with the Jewish people under Roman rule

The triumphal entry in to Jerusalem

The Last Supper

Judas betrays Jesus

Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane

Jesus is arrested  ...
and led away to the cross

The Resurrection

It was a wonderful depiction of the final week of Jesus' life, his death and resurrection. You can see the whole play on the Wintershall website ...
https://www.wintershall.org.uk/passion-jesus-london

Following the play, we headed off to Edgware Road for a scrumdidallyumptious Lebanese meal. Aiste, Basel and I shared a platter for two, and still managed to bring food home :-)  I was too busy eating to take any photos!!!
So needed the walk from there, through Hyde Park back to Victoria.







I know some of you went to the English Festival in Rainham on Saturday. If you have any photos you want to share, do please send them to me :-)

Easter Sunday is one of the most significant days in our Christian calendar. It's a day filled with JOY and CELEBRATION, therefore it was unbelievably sad to wake up to the news of church and hotel bombings in Sri Lanka, and so many lives lost. Places I knew personally from my visit there just three months ago. I know that innumerable churches and faith communities around the globe were lifting up prayers for the people of Sri Lanka.

At St Mark's our service was marked with 8 adult baptisms. What a wonderful time it was!!  For me, it was made extra special through the privilege of sponsoring two of the candidates  ...  Kesia and Samantha.

A wonderful weekend was then brought to a close with our traditional Bring & Share Lunch and Easter Egg Hunt. With copious amounts of scrumptious food, 64 mini chocolate bunnies hidden around the house, delumptious desserts and a relaxing hour and a half watching the 'BFG'.

A weekend filled with four of my very favourite things ... 
Faith, Friends, Food and Film :-)

How marvellous!!!