Carol in Cal. Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 How is Holy Saturday like Advent? It's a season of promise and expectation. The work of Christ on the cross is done. He has triumphed gloriously. We can do nothing--we have already contemplated our sins, we are not yet able to celebrate the resurrection. It's time out of time. We wait. We anticipate. We praise God, but we don't yet rejoice fully. The alleluias are not released today. No, not yet. But we know that they are coming! Easter is coming! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Fairy Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 I love Holy Saturday. It's such a quiet, reflective day. Lent always seems to last forever, and the feeling of anticipation is wonderful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMommy Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Beautiful words! Holy Saturday is my second favorite day of the church year...I'm very much looking forward to Easter Vigil tonight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Amen and amen. Chris in VA who is waiting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milovany Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Today hell groans and cries aloud: "My power has been destroyed. I accepted a mortal man as one of the dead; yet I cannot keep Him prisoner, and with Him I shall lose all those over whom I ruled. I held in my power the dead from all the ages; but see, He is raising them all." Glory to Thy Cross, O Lord, and to Thy Resurrection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMommy Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 “What is happening? Today there is a great silence over the earth, a great silence, and stillness, a great silence because the King sleeps; the earth was in terror and was still, because God slept in the flesh and raised up those who were sleeping from the ages. God has died in the flesh, and the underworld has trembled. Truly he goes to seek out our first parent like a lost sheep; he wishes to visit those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. He goes to free the prisoner Adam and his fellow-prisoner Eve from their pains, he who is God, and Adam’s son. The Lord goes in to them holding his victorious weapon, his cross. When Adam, the first created man, sees him, he strikes his breast in terror and calls out to all: ‘My Lord be with you all.’ And Christ in reply says to Adam: ‘And with your spirit.’ And grasping his hand he raises him up, saying, ‘Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light. ‘I am your God, who for your sake became your son, who for you and your descendants now speak and command with authority those in prison: Come forth, and those in darkness: Have light, and those who sleep: Rise.’ ‘I command you: Awake, sleeper, I have not made you to be held a prisoner in the underworld. Arise from the dead; I am the life of the dead. Arise, O man, work of my hands, arise, you who were fashioned in my image. Rise, let us go hence; for you in me and I in you, together we are one undivided person.’†(quoted in For All the Saints, vol. III, p. 1037) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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