We all approach Good Friday with mixed emotions. Even the name of the day can be confusing and confronting. What is ‘good’ about this day? The answer to that question depends very much on your perspective.
As we are not able to meet together to hear and reflect on the message of Easter that lies at the centre of our Christian faith, perhaps this year we will more easily engage with the solemn message of Good Friday with its focus on suffering and death, given all that is happening across the world. But even here we will remind ourselves of the love and compassion at the heart of the story, qualities that are also being seen across the world in various ways in every community.
If you wish to engage with and participate in an online service on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, a collaborative team from Ringwood North, Ringwood, Heathmont, Croydon and Croydon North Uniting Churches has prepared services for you. These will be broadcast from the North Ringwood Uniting Church website at 10 am on the respective days. Go to the website and under the large LIVE banner, click ‘Watch’. You may write comments during the service which will appear on the right hand column of the screen.
This Easter, I encourage you to sit with the bleakness and sadness of Good Friday and not rush ahead or read on to Easter until Sunday. Then feel free to go wild with your celebrations and to call or Skype each other to pass on your Easter greetings.
Click here for worship@home for Good Friday 2020
An Easter message from the Moderator, Rev Denise Liersch, can be found here.
An Easter message from the UCA President, Dr Deidre Palmer, can be viewed from Sunday.