Lent and Easter 2023

Psalms, Poetry and Silent Prayer

Journey to Easter

For Sunday 9th April (Easter)

Psalm 114: 1-6

When Israel went out from Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
Judah became God's sanctuary,
Israel his dominion.

The sea looked and fled;
Jordan turned back.
The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.

Why is it, O sea, that you flee?
O Jordan, that you turn back?
O mountains, that you skip like rams?
O hills, like lambs?

When Dante was writing his famous Divine Comedy, his key Bible text was the first two verses of this psalm – he drew a comparison between the Exodus, Israel escaping from Egypt, and souls getting out of Purgatory. We might put things a little differently, but we too ‘join the dots’ between the Old Testament and the New Testament, see Exodus as a model of our salvation and find Easter so exciting that the hills skip up and down, or (we might say) Big Ben bounces in time to the music of the gospel!

Easter Bounce (Psalm 114)

How do you link the Exodus to Easter?
How do you join the dots between the texts?
How do you get your teeth into the story,
where Israel’s exiting,
grace is revisiting,
mountains are bouncing
and God is announcing
the kingdom is open to pilgrim and punter and priest?

How do you grasp a theme like Easter morning?
How do you tie the resurrection down?
How do you get your head around the Master,
who floored his critics,
knocked back the cynics,
woke up the dry and dead,
gave us new life instead,
named us his holy ones, called us to share in his feast?

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St Columba’s is located on Pont Street in Knightsbridge in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The Church is within easy reach of three London Underground stations – Knightsbridge (Piccadilly Line), South Kensington (Piccadilly, Circle and District Lines) and Sloane Square (Circle and District Lines).

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Getting here by tube

Knightsbridge Station

Take the Harrods exit if open (front car if coming from the East, rear car if coming from the West). Come up the stairs to street level, carry on keeping Harrods on your right. Turn right into Basil Street. Carry straight on into Walton Place with St Saviour’s Church on your left. At the traffic lights, St Columba’s is to your left across the street. If the Harrods exit is closed, take the Sloane Street exit, turn right into Basil Street. Carry straight on past Harrods with the shop on your right, into Walton Place as before.

South Kensington Station

Come up the stairs out of the station and turn left into the shopping arcade. Turn left again into Pelham Street. At the traffic lights at the end of Pelham Street cross Brompton Road, turn left then immediately right into the narrow street of Draycott Avenue. After just a few yards turn left into Walton Street. Carry on walking up Walton Street until the traffic lights at the corner of Pont Street. Turn right and after a few steps you will be at St Columba’s!

Sloane Square Station

Cross over the square into Sloane Street. Walk along Sloane Street until the traffic lights at the corner of Pont Street. Turn left into Pont Street. St Columba’s will then be in sight.