With the theme "Hope and
Rejoicing," church hymns will speak of joy, hope, and consolation.
(This, in ancient Rome, included the exchange of presents and family reunions.) Easter purloined the spring festivals,
rejoicing at the advent of new life following a cold and hard winter.
Rejoicing in Lament: Wrestling with Incurable Cancer & Life in Christ comes from a theologian who was diagnosed with a rare form of incurable cancer before he was forty, and who began struggling with the typical questions about God's presence and intention in the face of life-threatening disaster.
Receiving the initial results, PMLN workers started
rejoicing. Forgetting all the rules and regulations after winning the election, workers started aerial firing.
27 ( ANI ): Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney reportedly made an emotional phone call to David Moyes after the Scot had been sacked from his post and is said to have been 'raging' at some players who are
rejoicing in his departure.
By
rejoicing in summary executions and state sponsored assassinations, we are proving that we can no longer lay claim to the moral high ground.
What I'm not going to accept, however, is the view propounded by everyone, from the idiot boy Cameron to the media as a whole, that this engagement should be cause for national
rejoicing. Walking the streets on Tuesday I couldn't see much
rejoicing.
This Easter truth is a cause for real
rejoicing! Now we can see that our lives are not destined for oblivion.
Paul's words of
rejoicing, echoing in camp songs and Sunday school lessons of the congregation's psyche, seem to be a refuge from the radical discipleship and judgment of Luke's John the Baptist.
If this is the reasoning behind Sullivan's
rejoicing at the thought of being HIV-positive, I pity him.
A nation is
rejoicing. Wales' Grand Slam has been described as a miracle.
As a form of happiness, mirth is '
rejoicing, especially expressed in merrymaking' ...
Despite the relief and the
rejoicing this weekend, Blair has split the nation and his own party.
The gift of great favour, the moment of sweet "How pleasant you promise to my palate, sweeter than honey in my mouth" (Psalm 119:103),
rejoicing ["I have told you this so that my own joy be in you and your joy complete" (John, 15:11)] that is, the Eucharist, is simultaneously so exalted and yet so profound a truth that it eludes us both above and below; so fundamental that we overlook it, so transcendent that we cannot comprehend it: "I have dealt with great things that I do not understand; things too wonderful for me, which I cannot know," (Job, 42:3).
