Reply #6: I went Saturday night to beat the Easter Sunday rush. The sermon was on the Old Testament use of

[nealmhughes]

water and this led to cleansing not literally but spiritually, and then the Resurrection Gospel. The overwhelming message was on our own "dirt" and how we need to practice what we supposedly preach.

Pretty standard Easter sermon, pretty standard Episcopal Church sermon. I have to say that the dark church, except for the candles until the first "allellulia" was pretty cool, everyone's face glowed by the light of their candles. A friend said he drove by and the stained glass window was glowing by our flickering candles and it was "freaky cool."

The smell of incense lingers in my jacket yet.