THE SECOND SUNDAY: The
first Sunday after Easter is historically called Quasimodogeniti Sunday.
That sounds a little like the character in the Hunchback of Notre Dame,
but it means "like newborn babies." New-born baby Sunday.
THE THIRD SUNDAY:
"Sticks
and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me." That was a
popular retort when someone called you a name. Sticks and stones have substance.
Names are nothing, empty signs, hollow words.
THE FOURTH SUNDAY: This is
the fourth Sunday of the seven Sundays of Easter - a week of weeks to reflect
on the resurrection of Christ from the dead and what it means for us and
for our church.
