THE rolling away of the stone covering Jesus’ tomb is a reminder of the hope offered by Easter, says the Bishop of St Asaph.

In his Easter message, the Rt Revd Gregory Cameron spoke of how we each have stones which “can trap us in daily living” or entomb us “in disappointment, doubt, despair, or even spiritual death”.

The story of Easter is a reminder that those stones can be rolled away, just like the stone securing the tomb of Jesus was rolled away.

Bishop Gregory wrote: “For me, the fact that the stone was rolled away tells me that night is never the end of the story; there will always be a morning.

“Fundamentally, the Christian good news is that evil does not have the last word, death is not the end, suffering is not without redemption, and no good thing is ever lost with God.

“I believe that this is a message of hope that the world needs to hear.

“We have fought and struggled with COVID, the resurrection promises us that there is life beyond the pandemic – even that our loved ones who have died are somehow safe in God’s care.

“The horrors of war in Ukraine, and the dastardly deeds of warmongers are not the last word: there is the possibility of new life.

“War will end, regimes will collapse, new beginnings will come to pass.”

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Bishop Gregory’s Easter Message is being shared in churches across the diocese of St Asaph which extends from Llandudno in north-west Wales to Newtown in mid-Wales and across to the English border.

St Asaph is one of the six dioceses in the Church in Wales, an independent province of the worldwide Anglican Communion.