In the Christian tradition we give a great welcome to the Christ-child. We travel long and hard through Lent and Holy Week and focus with fierce tenderness on Christ crucified. Finally, after the spiritual exhaustion of Holy Saturday, we arrive at the most astonishing day in the history of the world, when the Lord erupts into his own creation, shattering our closed minds and throwing open the windows of eternity. It is Easter Sunday and Christ is risen!

But then, after a morning’s celebration, we seem to lose focus. We move on all too quickly to less exalted matters. We have a Bank Holiday.

A highly readable, creative and often humorous book, Living Easter Through the Year is full of ideas, reflections and resources on how to extend the message of resurrection through the coming weeks and into the rest of our lives. It includes suggestions of ways to celebrate the resurrection, worship ideas, a course for home/cell groups, stories and personal experience, poetry, music and art, literature, film and cartoons: all designed to give a variety of points of entry to the theme of resurrection.