by Bishop Wilma Kucharek | Apr 15, 2019 | Messages from Bishop Kucharek, News Releases
Easter Changes Everything! For weeks, the commercial world has been preparing us for Easter. Ads and emails invite us to “hop to” the latest sales promotion, remind us to shop for that Easter dinner “with our peeps,” and try to entice us with an “egg-cellent” deal...
by Bishop Wilma Kucharek | Mar 26, 2018 | Messages from Bishop Kucharek, News Releases
Sometimes life seems like an endless roller coaster ride, complete with sudden, extreme turns, unpredictable vertical drops, and slow ascents which only send us once again on another go-around. Our Scripture accounts of Holy Week mirror such a roller coaster ride....
by Bishop Wilma Kucharek | Apr 15, 2017 | Messages from Bishop Kucharek, News Releases
Blessed Eastertide! Christ is Risen! For Christians, Easter is celebrated for more than one day. Eastertide is a season which begins on Easter and lasts for fifty days until Pentecost. It is a time of joy during which we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and...
by Joshua Drobena | Apr 1, 2016 | News Releases
TORRINGTON, CONN (SZS) — This year’s Easter season began with the combined Easter Vigil of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Trumbull, CT with sister congregations in Connecticut (Danbury, Stafford Springs & Torrington) as all joined together for a...
by Bishop Wilma Kucharek | Mar 24, 2016 | Messages from Bishop Kucharek
For Christians, Easter is not some mere observance of spring. It is the passage from death to life, from brokenness to wholeness, from hopelessness to hope, and from despair to the blessed assurance of new life made possible by the death and resurrection of Christ. It...