Actually, it isn't too bright out today. But today is "Bright Sunday," a custom I learned about at All Saints' Palo Alto.
Background: “For centuries, in Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant countries, Easter Monday and “Bright Sunday” (the Sunday after Easter) were observed by the faithful as “days of joy and laughter” with parties and picnics to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection. ”Parishioners and pastors played practical jokes on each other, drenched each other with water, sang, and danced. It was a time for clergy and people to tell jokes and to have fun. The custom of Easter Monday and Bright Sunday celebrations were rooted in the musings of early church theologians (like Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, and John Chrysostom) that God played a practical joke on the devil by raising Jesus from the dead. Easter was ‘God’s supreme joke played on death.’
Attached is a sermon I did last year at this time to introduce the Bright Sunday practice to others at EDS. It is a joke filled sermon.
I hope that it is readable. I continue to have problems reading; my left eye doesn't want to focus with my left. This will eventually go away with other chemo effects, though I'll probably have to have new glasses, again. I'm feeling a bit better and hope that last week's low time is now behind me.
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