Liturgical Color: White

Theme: Resurrection; the Empty Tomb. You also may want to include the theme of Jesus' crucifixion, for those who expect to experience the joy of Easter without the horror of Good Friday. In no way will we experience life without death, resurrection without crucifixion.

A Return To Good Friday, Which At The Time, Appeared Bad
Continue to keep the cross and communion table wrapped in the daily newspaper. Have a dead "Jesus" simulated on the old rugged cross as people arrive. Have the musicians play, "Christ Lay in the Bonds of Death" by J. S. Bach. For the especially courageous, read the fifth meditation in the book, A Coney Island of the Mind, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. (See Appendix II for address.) For others, read Mark 15:37-41, with appropriate "death music" by …