Easter Vigil Sermon

I’m glad that I didn’t preach to the readings tonight, but to the occasion. The Vicar hadn’t told me what the Gospel was, and I picked the wrong one (Luke) out of the Lectionary. I also managed to preach an Easter sermon and mention Jesus precisely once. Could be a record…

April 3, 2010 Easter Vigil
Sermon delivered at St. John the Evangelist, 7 pm.

In the name of God, the one, the Undivided Trinity. AMEN.

One of the little secrets about Christmas is that we have no evidence that it happened on December 25th, or in December even. Shepherds watching their flocks by night is something that happened mostly in the spring, when the ewes needed help with the lambing and the shepherds thus stuck around the fields to assist should the ewes get into trouble during birth. So if the Gospel narrative is anything to go by, Jesus was born in the spring.

Easter, however, is another matter. As the narrative is so tied up with Passover, we are relatively certain that it took place sometime in March or April around the first third of the 1st Century AD.

Although you wouldn

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