Australians are enjoying a rare long weekend with the traditional Easter extended break coinciding with Anzac Day Public Holiday.
In today’s Australian newspaper, Simon Smart writes an excellent column illustrating that “there’s much that links Easter and Anzac Day, and both have a profound power to move us”, and he goes on to say, “Somewhere behind the chocolate eggs and hot cross buns remains the strange and ancient account of a resurrection; the glimmer of hope that death is not the end of the story.
Click here is read the article “A sombre spiritual journey from Anzac Cove to Calvary”.
In a similar vein, on Good Friday, Father Steve Sinn had us looking into Barbara Campbell’s black painting hanging at the entrance of St Canice’s Church in Kings Cross, titled “Extinction”. The art work appears simply as layer upon layer of thick black paint representing Christ’s death, but Steve urges all to look closely and see that there is a fine crack running through it; a crack revealing light beyond the darkness; life beyond death.
'Extinction' by Barbara Campbell
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