Last Sunday, Easter Sunday, was crowded. Crowded with friends. Crowded with newcomers. Crowded with guests and families of members. Crowded with those who come to church twice-a-year. Crowded with those who never-miss-a-Sunday.
This week . . . the Sunday after Easter...maybe not so crowded?
No wonder it's dubbed "Low Sunday." There is time and elbow room enough to look up and down the pews and see old friends and maybe even ask, "Did you have a nice Easter?"
But that question is wrong.
Easter isn't over. It's still Easter. Easter isn't just one Sunday. Easter is a season of the church which lasts for fifty days. That's ten days longer than Lent, and Lent always seems to go on forever. But somehow over the centuries the church seems to have gotten better at keeping Lent, than it has at …