Jesus Is the Resurrection and the Life. Worship: March 22, 2026

Bulletin Cover Image Credit: By Henry Ossawa Tanner - Musée d’Orsay https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/la-resurrection-de-lazare-9241

Lent is a time when God prepares His people to celebrate the Paschal Feast, the resurrection of Jesus, with sincerity and truth. In the Reading from Ezekiel 37, we see the power of the Word that transforms dry bones into living flesh with the breath of the Spirit. This same Spirit lives in us and will raise us at the Last Day, which is exactly what we hear from Paul in the Reading from Romans 8. The Spirit who raised Christ will also give life to us. Having received the Spirit in Baptism, we join with Martha in confessing boldly that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, who comes to us today in His Word and Sacrament and will come again to call us out of our graves.