Holy Saturday is a neglected day in parish life. Few people attend the Services. Popular piety usually reduces Holy Week to one day Holy Friday. This day is quickly replaced by another Easter Sunday. Christ is dead and then suddenly alive. Great sorrow is suddenly replaced by great joy. In such a scheme Holy Saturday is lost.
In the understanding of the Church, sorrow is not replaced by joy; it is transformed into joy. This distinction indicates that it is precisely within death the Christ continues to effect triumph.
–Alexander Schmemann (1921-1983)
The darkest day ever
Was the one in between
What had been done
And what had yet to beHoly Saturday, by…me. 😉
Art: St. Peter weeping before the Blessed Virgin on the first Holy Saturday, by Guercino (1647) pic.twitter.com/HJ7dxxzuc2— rose ✌🏻 (@webchyk) March 31, 2018