Chaplain’s Corner

One of the many wonderful traditions here at Oxley, includes our Year 12 students hosting the final chapel of Term 1, with an Easter focus. On Tuesday, we saw a beautiful depiction of the moments leading up to the crucifixion and resurrection, acted out in a dramatisation that accompanied the poem below. The poem was written by Year 12 student, Ashley Thomas.

We set our scene on this last night

The night before Jesus Christ died

Jesus with His disciples dined

Eating bread and drinking wine

Jesus said “Eat this in remembrance of Me

For the broken bread is My body

Drink this in remembrance too

For the cup of wine is My blood spilled for you”

Then Jesus said “Someone in this room

Will betray Me very soon”

The disciples cried “Surely not me!”

Before one got up to flee

Jesus took His disciples three

To the garden of Gethsemane

He told Peter James and John

“Don’t give in to temptation”

Jesus went to pray three times

“If it’s Your will, God, spare My life”

But Judas the betrayer, as Jesus had guessed

Told the soldiers “the man who I kiss, you’ll arrest”

They beat Him, mocked Him, whipped and bruised

As He stood there, being accused

They nailed His body to the cross

Believed they had won, and He had lost

But it wasn’t over yet

As Jesus took His last breath

He proclaimed “It is finished”

Died so we are no longer sinners

Mary went to His tomb after three days

There she saw the stone had rolled away

She grieved for she thought Jesus missing

But then the angel proclaimed “He has Risen!”

Spread this news far and wide

For Jesus Christ He is Alive

But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9

I pray for God’s richest blessings on you and your family this Easter. I hope you enjoy a wonderful time of rest and rejuvenation. Also a time of reflection and worship, as we recognise the significance of what Jesus Christ did for us upon the cross and continues to do for us, through the resurrection. 

May I invite you, if you do not have an Easter service to attend, to join me at Life Ministry Church on Good Friday at 10.00am and Sunday morning, also at 10.00am. It is always a very special time together.

God bless,

Pastor Matt Daly

College Chaplain