Sunday Service, April 16, Sermon by Rev. Susan Brasier, "Holy Humour Sunday"

There is a rumour running around that God made people because God loves to laugh.

This Sunday, we remember not to take ourselves too seriously. God knows all of our foibles and nevertheless calls us “beloved” just as we are.

Link to the Order of Service

First Lesson:  Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Second Lesson: Mark 8:13-21

Sermon by Rev. Susan Brasier, “Holy Humour Sunday’’

Holy Humour Sunday stems from traditions in the early Greek church when Christians gathered during the week after Easter with picnics and parties and practical jokes leading up to “Bright” Sunday (the Sunday after Easter) to celebrate their joy that Jesus lived, and that death had no power over life. Early Christian writers mused that God had played a joke on Satan, while ordinary folk would say, “The joke is on the devil, Jesus lives!”