{"id":136589,"date":"2025-04-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136589"},"modified":"2025-04-19T11:33:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T15:33:55","slug":"the-transition-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136589","title":{"rendered":"The Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013Alexander Schmemann (1921-1983)<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Art:<br>The Dead Christ<br>By<br>Philippe de Champaigne  (1602\u20131674) <br>Louvre Museum  \ufffc \ufffc <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Triduum?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Triduum<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HolySaturday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HolySaturday<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jesus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jesus<\/a>&#x2764;&#xfe0f;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HolyWeek2021?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HolyWeek2021<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/3April?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#3April<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/3Apr2021?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#3Apr2021<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ReligiousArt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ReligiousArt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CatholicArt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CatholicArt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Christian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Christian<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Catholic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Catholic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KalinaB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KalinaB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/57872srXhV\">pic.twitter.com\/57872srXhV<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kalina Boulter (@KalinaBoulter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KalinaBoulter\/status\/1378317092613718017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136589\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570,184,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-week","category-parish-ministry","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136593,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136589\/revisions\/136593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}