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Approximately 10 people attended St. John’s Episcopal Church’s Easter sunrise service in the prayer garden at approximately 6 a.m. on Easter Sunday.
“The sunrise service symbolizes the gathering of the disciples at the empty tomb,” St. John’s Episcopal Church Rev. John Beach said. “It was at dawn when they discovered that Jesus had risen.”
Rev. Beach added that there is a holiness in considering that moment when the disciples realized that the world had changed. During the service, Saugus resident Mary Lou Graham read the resurrection story in Matthew’s Gospel account, and Rev. Beach lit a paschal candle, which represents the risen Christ as a symbol of light dispelling darkness. Graham also prayed for the end of the Ukraine conflict. Her father, Alex Razumny, was born in Ukraine.
