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Easter 2007 booklet available for download

February 15 , 2007

ACTS' booklet for Easter 2007 is now available for download (pdf, 130kb). Printed copies are also available from Shona Paterson at 14p each including postage.

Entitled 'Easter from the Inside', the booklet is written by Rev Douglas Galbraith, Chair of the Church Life Network of ACTS and interim Ecumenical Officer of the Church of Scotland.

It contains Bible readings and meditations for each day in Holy Week.

Introduction

We can treat the Easter drama as one we watch from a distance, the distance of time or the distance of the space between actors and audience. Separated by time, we can question the relevance of the events that occurred so long ago; separated by the stage curtain we can treat the story objectively and demand to be convinced.

But in the events of Holy Week, and the adventures and insights of people and prophets that coloured their interpretation, there is something personal and intimate. Faith speaks to faith. Secrets are shared. We are invited into the inner circle, ushered behind closed doors. We even find ourselves tuned into Jesus’ own wavelength.

This is Easter from the inside, when we are auditioned for the part we are to take as the great drama of salvation continues to be played out in the times in which we live and all the times to come until the harvest of the Kingdom of God.