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Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack - So much of our life is being in the tomb, waiting.
We wait for our prayers to be answered in the way we wish.
We wait for our fractured relationships to be restored.
We wait for our broken hearts to heal.
We wait.
We cry out.
We sit in the tomb.
On Holy Saturday, we remember, we treasure and we honor our God who went to the tomb for us and is in the tomb with us.
He waits with us in the darkness and soon, he will take our hand and lead us into the light.
Wait for him.
Wait with him.
Trust, be brave and wait.
#talkedtotheboss #holysaturday #EasterVigil
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Father V @father_rmv - Holy Saturday Meditation
"In the history of the world, only one tomb has ever had a rock rolled before it and a soldier guard set to watch it to prevent the dead man within from rising; that was the tomb of Christ on the evening of the Friday called Good.
What spectacle could be more ridiculous than armed soldiers keeping their eyes on a corpse? But sentinels were set, lest the Dead walk, the Silent speak, and the Pierced Heart quicken to the throb of life.
They said He was dead; they knew He was dead; they would say He would not rise again; and yet they watched! They openly called Him a deceiver. But, would He still deceive? Would He, Who 'deceived' them into believing they won the battle, Himself win the war for life and truth and love?
They remembered that He called His Body the Temple and that in three days after they destroyed It, He would rebuild It; they recalled, too, that He compared Himself to Jonah and said that as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days, so would He be in the belly of the earth for three days and then would rise again.
After three days Abraham received back his son Isaac, who was offered in sacrifice; for three days Egypt was in a darkness that was not of nature; on the third day God came down on Mount Sinnai.
Now, once again, there was worry about the third day. The most astounding fact about this spectacle of vigilance over the dead was that the enemies of Christ expected the Resurrection, but His friends did not. It was the believers who were the skeptics; it was the unbelievers who were credulous. Evidently the disciples as well as the women, whenever He predicted His Passion, seemed to remember more His death than His Resurrection. It never occurred to them as a possible thing; it was foreign to their thoughts. When the stone was rolled to the door of the sepulcher, not only was Christ buried but also all of their hopes." (Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen)
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Father V @father_rmv - The Octave of Easter is an eight-day liturgical celebration that prolongs the joy of Easter Sunday, the Resurrection of Christ. It lasts from Easter Sunday through the Second Sunday of Easter, also called Divine Mercy Sunday.
Octave means eight days, including the feast itself, treating each day as a little Easter or solemnity of the Lord. Every day within the octave ranks as a high-level solemnity, with focused Resurrection readings and the repeated Alleluia cry of victory over sin and death. It begins Eastertide, the 50-day Easter season ending at Pentecost, and emphasizes new life in Christ, like a new creation or great Sunday. The octave overrides other feasts, keeping full attention on the Resurrection of Our Lord.
This structure allows the Church to savor the mystery gradually rather than limiting it to one day.
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