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PLACE YOUR "YARD SALE AT BY CALLING 985-7383 Take part in Holy Week activities I hope last week all you men saw the 'wanted' ad for men to join the beard growing competition for men to start in May and continue for 125 days. Think of the money you'll save in blades or shaves. But you women will have to share the mirrors while your men fuss and trim. Think of the fun and efforts to get sponsors. Let's hope the weather improves for next Saturday when all people of the area attend the Spring Fair at the Latcham Centre. Then Sunday should be good for a display of the Easter finery. Remember when you were little and there was a flurry of prepara- tion the week before Easter and then on Sunday morning you arriv- ed at church all decked out in your new Easter outfit? Like many tradi- tions we grew up with, this ritual had a deeper meaning than showing off your new clothes. Just as a white gown for Baptism represents new birth, wearing something new on Easter morning symbolizes the new life we receive because of Christ's resurrection. All the other Easter symbols also represent new life - baby chicks and bunnies, spring flowers, eggs and the special sym- bol of rebirth, the butterfly. Easter morning is the end of the story. Christ's triumph was won through great struggle and pain. Your Island Church, along with its partner church in Manchester will be providing an opportunity for you to re-live the events of Holy Week through the experience of worship. On Palm Sunday at each church you will find yourself back in Jerusalem. Events of the day will be reported to you as they happen on the scene. After the service on the Island there will be an Easter par- ty for pre-schoolers and their parents. The Maundy Thursday Service is at Scugog Island United Church. In a darkened church you will see Jesus washing his disciples feet and you will participate in communion remembering that it was at the last supper on the Thursday before he died that Jesus gave new meaning to the eating of bread and the drink- ing of wine. With music and scrip- ture you will be led through those agonizing hours when Jesus' friends deserted him. To symbolize this the church will become darker and - darker. At the end of the service you will be asked to leave quietly, the darkness of the church symbolizing the darkness of the mood. On Good Friday at Manchester Church, you will hear from five peo- ple who were witnesses to the events a a 8 oo TR $ Scugog Island News by | Reta Resde/ ao S EE of prey Week. In a stark church a simple cross will be a visable reminder of what Jesus endured. Early Sunday morning (at sunrise) at the end of Ashbridge's road, we will gather like Jesus' followers gathered early that first Easter morning. As we experience the discovery of the empty tomb we will feel as the disciples did, the feel- ings of sorrow mixed with confusion and hope. The rays of the sun (we hope) and the light of a fire, will symbolize the dawning of that realization that Jesus was indeed risen. We will go back to Scugog Island Church to share breakfast with the rest of the congregations at 8 a.m. Each church will be transformed for the joyful Easter celebration. Please wear something new or something you haven't worn since last spring. Easter Services Palm Sunday - Sunday, April 12 - 9:45 a.m. Scugog Island and 11:15 a.m. Manchester. Maundy Thurs- day - Thursday, April 16 - 7:30 p.m. Scugog Island. Good Friday - Fri- day, April 17 - 7:30 p.m. Manchester. Sunrise - Sunday, April 19 - Sunrise - end of Ashbridge's Road. 8 a.m. - Breakfast - everyone welcome! Easter service - 9:45 a.m. Scugog Island - 11:15 a.m. Manchester. Come and be part of the events of Holy Week. There are a few cemeteries in the world which contain more im- pressive tombs than the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Some years ago I spent an hour or so there looking at the elaborate memorials to the great and famous. Then I came to the place where the pianist and composer Frederic Chopin lies buried. There was just a simple stone slab lying over his grave. On it was carv- ed his name and the dates, 1810-1849, for this brilliant Polish musician had died young. Then I noticed a tiny bunch of violets, which someone had evident- ly just placed there - possibly a young girl who loved his music. I can hardly remember anything now about those expensive memorials, but I shall not forget Chopin's sim- ple grave and the sincerity of that little tribute. Though weather was disappoin- ting yesterday for the U.C.W. pro- jects at the Island Church and hall, attendance and interest was keen. However, Beryl Pearce who is theatrically inclined added much fun to the afternoon by tea cup readings which promised only good things for the future. Can't have Easter Sunday without Good Friday I was once talking to a friend about a painful experience and she reminded me that pain is a part of life. "You can't have Easter Sunday without Good Friday," she said. How true that is in our lives! So often the most profound joy comes when we emerge from a painful experience. On Easter Sunday we celebrate the wonderful news that Christ lives and therefore we too can live. No matter how deep our pain, we can come out on the other side. What we learn from the good news of Christ can give us hope as we face times of despair. As we celebrate the Christian year, which traces the life of Jesus, we celebrate the story of our own lives. The ministry of Jesus. culminating in the Palm Sunday Procession reminds us of times of optimism when we were beginning a new relationship or a new ex- perience. However, there often comes a time when things go sour, when our best intentions seem to falter. When this happens we ex- perience the kind of pain and suffer- ing that Jesus faced at Gethsemene. We seem to fall toward a kind of death. Jesus faced his death at Golgotha. As the body of Jesus rested in the tomb, we experience for awuile a sense of emptiness. Then quietly and slowly we gin to feel new life surging within us. Jesus not only came to tell us that there is life on the other side of death but joy on the other side of pain. In the symbol of the butterfly, which emerges from the darkness of the cocoon, we can see the message of hope. The message of Easter can he P us as we face the mountains and valleys in our journey of life.