{"id":7986,"date":"2010-04-01T12:27:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T16:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7986"},"modified":"2010-04-01T12:27:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T16:27:30","slug":"fred-hiltz-and-his-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/fred-hiltz-and-his-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Hiltz and his stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Primate Fred\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.anglican.ca\/news\/stories\/2195?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+acc-news+%28Anglican+Church+of+Canada+News+Stories%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">Easter message<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Christ is Risen, Christ is Risen; Tell it with a joyful voice&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having made our journey through Holy Week, commemorating the events of the Lord&#8217;s passion, death and burial we come now to Easter and the joy of His Glorious Resurrection.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday by Sunday throughout the great festival of Easter, we take delight in hearing those stories of how the risen Lord appeared to so many \u2014 greeting and calling them by name, opening the scriptures and teaching them, breaking bread in their midst, bestowing his peace, breathing the Holy Spirit into their hearts and then sending them into all the world.\u00a0 Alongside these wonderful stories are accounts of the earliest Christian preaching recorded in The Acts of the Apostles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The important thing about Easter is that these were <em>events<\/em> not <em>stories<\/em>: they actually happened, \u00a0they have objective reality. At Easter, Christians delight in the <em>fact <\/em>that Jesus rose physically from the dead, not in <em>hearing those stories. <\/em>I\u2019m sure Fred realises this &#8211; maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primate Fred\u2019s Easter message: &#8220;Christ is Risen, Christ is Risen; Tell it with a joyful voice&#8221; Having made our journey through Holy Week, commemorating the events of the Lord&#8217;s passion, death and burial we come now to Easter and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/fred-hiltz-and-his-stories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[2032,2123,2145],"class_list":["post-7986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fred-hiltz","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-easter","tag-fred-hiltz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}