(Sunday School
teachers/youth workers may be interested in an Easter word search created for us
by Miss Lorna Webb - link on our
activities page)
Easter Day is always a special day in every church in the world
because it celebrates the fact that Jesus rose from the dead. This is
celebrated in many different ways. Eggs are often used,, both chocolate
and real eggs as an egg is a symbol of new life. Eggs can even be painted
in some countries. In St. Hilary's the children always enjoy Easter Day.
You will all be pleased to know that the vicar arranged for some roofing experts
to visit the church during the week and the leaks have ALL been repaired so
Homer doesn't have to worry about wearing his hat in church again for a VERY
long time.................
Find out how Easter in St. Hilary's went below......................and what happened when the egg hunt had a rather unexpected addition to it...........and it involves.......fish!
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before Easter Day and Esther has brought the freshly washed and laundered
altar cloth which is used at Easter to put on to the altar. The altar was stripped on Maundy Thursday during a special communion service. The altar has been left bare until Easter to represent the fact that Jesus had died on the cross but had not yet risen from the dead.. Oh dear.........it looks like she has some little helpers in the form of Sepp, Syd, Esme and Ernest! They think that they can help her place the cloth "just right" on to the altar!
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Esther is having a little chat with them as they all work out how
they can each help dress the altar.
They all agree to help unwrap the altar cloth together, each taking a corner. |
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Goodness!
Time has moved on this Saturday afternoon and the flower ladies have
already been VERY busy at work!
Alice admires the sanctuary and altar Easter flower arrangements. She particularly loves the beautiful white lilies the flower ladies have used this year. The church is now ready for Easter Sunday morning when all the congregation celebrate joyfully the fact that Jesus has beaten death and rose again after three days in the tomb. |
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It is early Easter Sunday morning. Homer, poor man, has slept in church last night because he had nowhere to go....not ONE hostel had a space for him. He is so grateful that the vicar never turns him away and lets him sleep in church when times are really hard. WHAT is young Priscilla Jane doing here? Ummmmm.........she is having a little word with Homer. She is asking him to keep a big secret because she wants to have a special hunt for the two cats, Tinker and Magnifi-Cat. She knows that there is to be an Easter egg hunt after the morning service and thought that it was unfair that the cats were going to be left out. So she has brought two fish to church and wants to hide one of them under Homer's pew for one of the two cats to find! |
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Ambrose and Alice are organising the egg hunt
for the children after the Easter morning service.
Haven't they brought a wonderful selection of eggs and Easter bunnies? Oh dear........can anyone see something has happened to the ink pot on the table? One of the church mice must have been playing on the visitors' book table and knocked it over and even the pen has fallen on the floor too!
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| Ambrose is showing off these pretty little eggs he has brought to hide for the children in the church. |  |
| Ambrose has chosen to put one with the sanctuary flower arrangement. |  |
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The Easter Sunday service cannot begin
properly until the Paschal candle is
lit. (The Paschal candle represents Jesus present on earth from Easter Sunday until he rises to heaven on Ascension Day) Ambrose has offered to light it this year. However, he is struggling here as he works out how to reach the wick at the top before he lights it for real. |
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The vicar has a very special announcement to make today. He is
thrilled to present the congregation with some lovely new
hymn books.
They are "Ancient and Modern Revised". |
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The vicar asks Adele to come and pick one of the hymn books up and show it to the other children. Snowy and Nunc Dimittis the two church mice, scuttle into their little home under the lectern.......can you see them both? Suddenly they could all smell a smell of.......err..........fish...................and then some loud miaows too! What is going on here? |
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Ah............Magnifi-Cat AND
Tinker have each found the SAME fish..............the one under Homer's
pew.
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Tinker and Magnifi-Cat don't know
that Priscilla Jane has made sure they each had a fish and the other one
is hidden elsewhere. So they are having a little
argument..................we hope that Tinker does NOT hit poor
Magniifi-Cat!
The vicar has to quickly tell them to calm down and Priscilla Jane too, feeling a bit guilty now, tells both cats that there IS another fish in the church and she does go and fetch it for them both. |
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Phoebe is SO busy looking at her music after the Easter Sunday service
she has not noticed something.......can you see what it is..........or
should we say.........what THEY are?
They are Easter eggs of course which Ambrose and Alice hid before the morning service. |
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Tom HAS found an Easter egg whilst on his own Easter
egg hunt..................can you also see that there is a little foil
wrapped Easter bunny too?
The children are really enjoying Easter Sunday this year and especially the Easter Egg hunt in church. |
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Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
This site is dedicated to Hilary Doreen Davies who departed this life 26 November 2003 aged 71 after 23 years of chronic illness with strokes, cancer and arthritis. St Hilary's Church is our tribute to a brave lady who was mother to Sarah, Catherine, the late Rachel, the late John and wife to the late Owen Williams Davies.
