The whole bright world rejoices


Fellow festival-goers in lights, Edinburgh 2017  (Photo: Irene Bom)

 
After a series of solemn daily meditations for Holy Week, now for something bright and cheerful: a seventeenth century Easter carol, to channel our “laughing cheer” and “boundless joy”, for Jesus is risen! He is risen indeed!

Easter carol

The whole bright world rejoices now:
with laughing cheer! with boundless joy!
The birds do sing on every bough:
Alleluia!

Then shout beneath the racing skies:
with laughing cheer! with boundless joy!
To him who rose that we might rise:
Alleluia!

God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost:
with laughing cheer! with boundless joy!
Our God most high, our joy, our boast:
Alleluia!

 
from The Book of a Thousand Prayers by Angela Ashwin, #822
 


From the blog – also on an Easter theme
2017 windows on Holy Week #8
 

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