{"id":1600,"date":"2026-04-05T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2026-04-05T06:32:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:32:51","slug":"easter-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1600","title":{"rendered":"Easter Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/It-was-very-early-on-the-first-day-of-the-week-when-Mary-Magdalene-came-to-the-tomb-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/It-was-very-early-on-the-first-day-of-the-week-when-Mary-Magdalene-came-to-the-tomb-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4703\" srcset=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/It-was-very-early-on-the-first-day-of-the-week-when-Mary-Magdalene-came-to-the-tomb-3.png 1600w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/It-was-very-early-on-the-first-day-of-the-week-when-Mary-Magdalene-came-to-the-tomb-3-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/It-was-very-early-on-the-first-day-of-the-week-when-Mary-Magdalene-came-to-the-tomb-3-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/It-was-very-early-on-the-first-day-of-the-week-when-Mary-Magdalene-came-to-the-tomb-3-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/It-was-very-early-on-the-first-day-of-the-week-when-Mary-Magdalene-came-to-the-tomb-3-1536x864.png 1536w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/It-was-very-early-on-the-first-day-of-the-week-when-Mary-Magdalene-came-to-the-tomb-3-1568x882.png 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John 20:1-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve always loved the early morning. I was usually the first up at home and loved to be in school extra early. There is something about the quiet and the dark that prepares me for the day. Often in the morning I find that my heart and my mind have found a solution to a problem or that a difficulty from the day before doesn&#8217;t look quite so bad. Neuroscientists tell us that our cortisol levels are raised in the morning, so things really do look and feel much better.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can easily picture myself with Mary Magdalene, having awoken from a light sleep and wanting to be at the place where Jesus was laid. I can picture myself standing by the entrance to the tomb and waiting a while before I can look right in. I imagine the dark as a kind of protection for the confusion that Mary feels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What begins in darkness for Mary ends in dawn and recognition as Jesus speaks her name. This moment of encounter always makes my heart beat faster. Don\u2019t we all want someone to say our name and to know us as we truly are? Mary\u2019s exclamation of \u2018Rabbuni\u2019 is our cry of recognition too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where do you see the face of the Risen Christ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A Sonnet for Mary Magdalene<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Men called you light so as to load you down,<br>And burden you with their own weight of sin,<br>A woman forced to&nbsp;cover and contain<br>Those seven devils sent by Everyman.<br>But one man set you free and took your part<br>One man knew and loved you to the core<br>The broken alabaster of your heart<br>Revealed to Him alone a hidden door,<br>Into a garden where the fountain sealed,<br>Could flow at last for him in healing tears,<br>Till, in another garden, he revealed<br>The perfect Love that cast out all your fears,<br>And quickened you with loves own sway and swing,<br>As light and lovely as the news you bring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malcolm Guite<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 20:1-9 I\u2019ve always loved the early morning. I was usually the first up at home and loved to be in school extra early. There is something about the quiet and the dark that prepares me for the day. Often in the morning I find that my heart and my mind have found a solution &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1600\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Easter Sunday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monastic","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5429,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions\/5429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}