{"id":15440,"date":"2022-04-18T16:38:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T16:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/clerics-send-messages-of-hope-as-rwandans-celebrate-easter"},"modified":"2022-04-18T17:10:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T17:10:49","slug":"clerics-send-messages-of-hope-as-rwandans-celebrate-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/photo\/clerics-send-messages-of-hope-as-rwandans-celebrate-easter","title":{"rendered":"Clerics send messages of hope as Rwandans celebrate Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Christians in Rwanda on Sunday celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

Also known as Pascha, Easter was celebrated with worshippers attending service in the midst of limited Covid-19 restrictions compared to the previous two years.<\/p>\n

The day was also marked by taking of the Holy Communion, a Christian ritual performed in remembrance of the body and blood of Jesus that was broken and poured at the cross.<\/p>\n

Different preachers delivered messages of hope and salvation during Sunday Easter prayers.<\/p>\n

Isaie Ndayizeye, a Senior Pastor of the Association of Pentecostal churches in Rwanda (ADEPR), said: \u201cThe devil thought that death will be putting an end or cancelling the life and mission of Jesus, but rather His death symbolized that he took with him all our sins to the cross.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we need to restore our hope in him, he added; \u201cWhenever it seems so worse, God is able to restore any situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Jesus was doing, he continued, he was deactivating all the hindrances of salvation including the ongoing pandemic.<\/p>\n

From Jesus\u2019 death, we were transformed, and became the heirs of heaven’s share, he added.<\/p>\n

The same words were echoed by Cardinal Antoine Kambanda while delivering the message of the Episcopal Conference of Rwanda.<\/p>\n

\u201cEaster reminds us that there is hope and comfort in Jesus Christ. Due to Easter’s incident, we are testifiers that life overcomes death, light overcomes darkness and faith can resurface where hope was lost,\u201d he read the mass at Kigali Catholic Cathedral, which is also the seat of the Kigali Archdiocese.<\/p>\n

He moved on to explain that this gave comfort to Jesus\u2019 disciples.<\/p>\n

As the Gospel of John tells us, he said, they had been greatly affected by Jesus\u2019 death, thinking his mission on earth was interrupted.<\/p>\n

Easter should be the most celebrated day in the history of the Church<\/b><\/p>\n

While delivering his sermon on Sunday, April 17 at the Anglican Church, Remera Parish, Reverend Pastor Antoine Rutayisire made a case for the celebration of Easter.<\/p>\n

He is of the belief that Easter should be the most celebrated day in the history of the church because it signifies the accomplishment of the mission of the Son of God on earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis should be the most celebrated day. If Jesus had been born but did not die for our sins, we wouldn\u2019t be celebrating him,\u201d he said in his sermon entitled the power of resurrection, the power of life transformation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important thing was his mission on earth, not birth because it had been prophesied hundreds of years before,\u201d he noted citing the scripture of Psalm 16.<\/p>\n\r\n