{"id":61145,"date":"2024-03-27T15:02:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T19:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/?p=61145"},"modified":"2024-03-27T15:02:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T19:02:23","slug":"reflection-of-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/2024\/03\/reflection-of-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection of Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On a cloudy rainy morning, EMES students gathered beneath the protection of the bridge. Easter week at EMES is marked with a passion walk, a tradition since 2005, where students engage in reflection and song,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cJesus is coming, pave the way with branches, Jesus is coming, HOSANNA!\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5th grade read as their peers listened to the story, absorbing the significance of the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rhythmic beat of drums, led by 4th graders, guided the students to the dining hall, where the journey through Holy Week continued. They stopped at these stations: Reflection of the Last Supper,\u00a0 In the Garden, and the Crucifixion. But the journey did not end in darkness; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesus is not here,\u201d the angel said. \u201cHe is alive! Go tell his friends that they will get to see him again!\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HE IS RISEN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Christians celebrate Easter, we extend our warmest wishes to all our community. May this season of renewal inspire hope, peace, and unity among us all. As it says in Hymn 159-Henry Ware<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cLift your glad voices in triumph high, for Jesus hath risen,\u00a0 and we shall not die.\u201d And in the words of Matthew 28:6, NIV, \u201cHe is not here; he has risen, just as he said. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Co<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">me and see the place where he lay.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a cloudy rainy morning, EMES students gathered beneath the protection of the bridge. Easter week at EMES is marked with a passion walk, a tradition since 2005, where students engage in reflection and song, \u201cJesus is coming, pave the way with branches, Jesus is coming, HOSANNA!\u201d 5th grade read as their peers listened to\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":61147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,80],"tags":[40,135,303],"class_list":["post-61145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith-formation","category-news","tag-elementary","tag-emes","tag-faith-formation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61145"}],"curies":[{"name":"gracias","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}