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# Easter Day
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/holy-monday-0-0-0-0-0/
- Published: 2024-03-31T11:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-18T15:02:10.000Z
- Description: He is risen!
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Jake Meador, Holy Week

We won't be publishing normal content this week as we mark the high point in the Christian year: Holy Week. We will, however, be sharing various things related to the week for the edification and encouragement of our readers. 

He is risen!

Sonnet 68 - Easter by Edmund Spenser

> Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day,  
> Didst make thy triumph over death and sin:  
> And having harrow'd hell, didst bring away  
> Captivity thence captive, us to win:  
> This joyous day, dear Lord, with joy begin,  
> And grant that we for whom thou diddest die,  
> Being with thy dear blood clean wash'd from sin,  
> May live for ever in felicity.  
> And that thy love we weighing worthily,  
> May likewise love thee for the same again:  
> And for thy sake, that all like dear didst buy,  
> With love may one another entertain.  
> So let us love, dear love, like as we ought,  
> Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

An Easter Carol by Christina Rossetti

> Spring bursts to-day,  
> For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play.  
>  
> Flash forth, thou Sun,  
> The rain is over and gone, its work is done.  
>  
> Winter is past,  
> Sweet Spring is come at last, is come at last.  
>  
> Bud, Fig and Vine,  
> Bud, Olive, fat with fruit and oil and wine.  
>  
> Break forth this morn  
> In roses, thou but yesterday a Thorn.  
>  
> Uplift thy head,  
> O pure white Lily through the Winter dead.  
>  
> Beside your dams  
> Leap and rejoice, you merry-making Lambs.  
>  
> All Herds and Flocks  
> Rejoice, all Beasts of thickets and of rocks.  
>  
> Sing, Creatures, sing,  
> Angels and Men and Birds and everything.  
>  
> All notes of Doves  
> Fill all our world: this is the time of loves.

Here is [Justin's recap of Easter Sunday](https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/holy-week-easter-sunday-april-5-ad-33/?ref=mereorthodoxy.com).