Holy Saturday

Between silence.

April 20, 2019

‘Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of god.’

-Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

Some days are indeed times of great pain and some are of great joy, but most are…in between. Most are, in fact, times of waiting, as the disciples waited during Holy Saturday. We’re waiting. Waiting to get into a good school. Waiting to meet the right person. Waiting to get pregnant. Waiting to get a job. Waiting for things at work to improve Waiting for diagnosis from the doctor. Waiting for life just to get better. 

And there is,

is an active waiting; it knows that, even in the worst of situations, even in the darkest times, God is at work.

And to look carefully for signs of the new life that are always right around the corner–just like they were on Holy Saturday.

-James Martin, Jesuit priest

https://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/we-live-holy-saturday

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I am not attempting, O Lord, to penetrate your loftiness,

for I cannot begin to match my understanding with it,

but I desire in some measure to understand your truth,

which my heart believes and loves.

For I do not seek to understand in order that I may believe,

but I believe in order to understand.

For this too I believe,

that “unless I believe, I shall not understand.” ([Isaiah 7:9)

-Anselm of Canterbury