Jesus is placed in the tomb
As Love lies vanquished, hearts and dreams are shattered;
those who believed him, frightened now and scattered;
tomb takes his body, boulder locks the light away –
hope is extinguished.
"This is Holy Saturday: the day of God’s concealment, the day of that unprecedented paradox we express in the Creed with the words: “Descended into hell”, descended into the mystery of death. We need the silence of God to experience again the abyss of God's greatness and the chasm of our nothingness which would grow wider and wider without God".
'May we truly be people of Easter in the midst of history’s Holy Saturday'.
Holy Week from Iona: Stations of the Cross
Photo: 'Oran's chapel' © David Coleman
Text: Taken from 'The Last Journey - A hymn for Good Friday' © Pat Bennett
Tune: 'Iste Confessor' from The Poitiers Antiphoner, 1746 http://www.ionabooks.com/the-last-journey.html
Three meditations on Holy Saturday
As Love lies vanquished, hearts and dreams are shattered;
those who believed him, frightened now and scattered;
tomb takes his body, boulder locks the light away –
hope is extinguished.
"This is Holy Saturday: the day of God’s concealment, the day of that unprecedented paradox we express in the Creed with the words: “Descended into hell”, descended into the mystery of death. We need the silence of God to experience again the abyss of God's greatness and the chasm of our nothingness which would grow wider and wider without God".
'May we truly be people of Easter in the midst of history’s Holy Saturday'.
Holy Week from Iona: Stations of the Cross
Photo: 'Oran's chapel' © David Coleman
Text: Taken from 'The Last Journey - A hymn for Good Friday' © Pat Bennett
Tune: 'Iste Confessor' from The Poitiers Antiphoner, 1746 http://www.ionabooks.com/the-last-journey.html
Three meditations on Holy Saturday
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