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Gen1:1,26-31
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Gen22:1-18
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Ex14:15-15:1
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Is54:5-14
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Is 55:1-11
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Is12:5-14
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Bar 3:9-15
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Ez36:16-28
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Rom6:3-11
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Mk16:1-8
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Holy Saturday
Brother and sisters
today is the day of great silence. Our Savior Jesus Christ has died. He resist
in the tomb. Many hearts were filled with uncontrollable grief and confusion.
Was he really gone? Had all their hopes been shattered? These and many other thoughts
of despair filled the minds and the hearts of so many who loved and followed
Jesus.
It is on this day we
acknowledge the fact that Jesus was
still preaching. He descended to the land of the dead, to all the holy souls
who had gone before Him, so as to bring them His gift of salvation. He brought
His gift of mercy and redemption to Moses, Abraham, the prophets and so many
others. This was a day of great Joy for them. But a day of great sorrow and confusion for those who watched
their Messiah dying on the Cross.
It's helpful to ponder
this apparent contradiction. Jesus was accomplishing His act of redemption, the
greatest act of love ever known, and so many were in complete confusion and
despair. It shows that God's ways are so far above our own ways. What appeared
to be a great loss actually turned into the most glorious triumph ever known.
Thus Holy Saturday to
us all should be a reminder to us all
that even those things which seem to be the worst of tragedies are always what
they seem. God the Son was obviously doing great things as He laid in the tomb.
He was accomplishing His mission of redemption. He was changing lives and
pouring forth grace and mercy.
The message of Holy
Saturday is the message of hope. Not hope in a worldly sense, rather, it's the
message of divine hope. Hope and trust in God's perfect plan. Hope in the fact
that God always has a greater purpose. Hope in the fact that God uses suffering
and, in this case, death as powerful instrument of God's salvation.
Spend time in silence
today. Try to enter into the reality of Holy Saturday. Let divine hope grow
within you knowing that Easter is soon to come.
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