This is a beautiful meditation, author unknown, for a feast that is spent in quiet and expectation before Easter Sunday. What do we do on Holy Saturday? What can we do? but wait and, like the disciples on the way to Emmaus, think about the “things that have been done in these days [in Jerusalem]” (Luke 24:18).
Jesus goes to the dark place, to awaken the just, to awaken Adam and Eve, bearing His Cross, to announce the coming glory of the saints of old who will soon ascend with Him into heaven. Imagine the joy. Imagine the joy of the Savior as He comes as a hero, the Conqueror, to console his beloved, the Church of the Old Testament.
Place yourself there with those holy souls as they see this luminous Soul, that of the God-man, coming now, after so long to give them joy. They kiss His hands and feet. They are enraptured. This is Holy Saturday. While we slept and thought about those “things that have been done” let us now rejoice in the Resurrection of the Christ.
ChurchPop: Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear. Read the rest here.
