St Matthew-in-the-City Easter Billboard Goes Up for April Fools

On Thursday, which is coincidentally April Fools Day, St Matthew’s will put up its first billboard since Christmas. Glynn Cardy, Vicar of St Matthew’s, observes, “There is a great tradition in the Eastern Church of cracking jokes at Easter.  Laughing proclaims that despite the realities of suffering and death, the power of life, love and liberty is stronger.  The tenacity of the human spirit is God given, and will not be overcome by the forces of oppression.”

This billboard, drawn by the cartoonist ‘Jim’, expresses in a humorous way both the reality of pain and the will to overcome it with the power of life and laughter.  It shows a dejected Jesus hanging from the cross, commenting, “Well this sucks.  I wonder if they’ll remember anything I said…”

Cardy noted, “It also reminds us that Easter is about more than a rugged cross, a supernatural miracle, or a chocolate bunny.  It is a time to reflect on all the words and actions of Jesus and how he disrupted his world through self-giving love, and how we might do likewise.” 

ENDS

For more information please contact Clay Nelson at the church office on 09 379 0625.
 
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