Since coming to Saint Mary’s, one of my favorite services has been Easter Day Evensong & Benediction. The second lesson for Evening Prayer is from John’s gospel—Jesus’ appearance to his disciples on the evening of the day of resurrection. The evangelist wrote: “On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ ”[1]
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