…Well, less sublime. My Easter weekend was busy with egg-decorating and egg-hunting and family gatherings, and, oh yeah, Mass. It was all greatly enjoyable, if more hectic than I want. But such is life, and that’s fine.

Back to blogging, I have seen a number of wonderful photos and read some wonderful refelctions, which I’ll try to post later. The shot at the right–well, that’s from what appear to be the world’s only drive-thru foot-washing liturgy. And all thanks to the folks at the Anglican Church of the Resurrection in Hamilton, Ontario, as per the The Hamliton Spectator:

“We have a long driveway here and it just seemed like a good idea,” said Stephen Murray, rector of the west Mountain Anglican church that brought a Dixieland band into the sanctuary for Mardi Gras Tuesday and will celebrate Easter tonight with a Resurrection wine and cheese.

Dressed in full vestments and armed with Rubbermaid containers, squirt bottles of pink liquid soap, a stack of odd towels and enough pitchers to start a lemonade stand, the reverend and his assistant curate, Leon Burke, stood in the sunshine awaiting their first disciple.

Apparently business was good.

The Age of Australia has the drive-thru foot-washing foto, but also many more–including a beautiful one of Pope Benedict XVI giving communion (which is misspelled!). Check out the entire gallery. As The Age focuses on Asia, there are many shots of that part of the world, which we in North America took often ignore. Great shots of Cardinal Zen, but hard to beat this little boy (below) at Easter mass in Xiaohan in China. Patriotic or Underground church? Or other? At some points, the distinctions make little difference.