Eastertide #3:

On the first day of every week…

(First Corinthians 16:2)

There was something clandestine, even subversive, about gathering early Sunday morning to sing praises and to hear again the story of our redemption, and offer prayers to King Jesus. Rome didn’t like it. It took some time, 300 years or so, but eventually Rome ended up declaring Sunday an official legal holiday claiming that the day to honor the sun had now become the day to honor the “Light of the World.” You can’t help but admire those pre-official Sunday believers who dared to gather unofficially early before their day’s work to worship our risen Lord.