"There is a great silence on earth
today...God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear." --From an
Ancient Holy Saturday Homily
All is quiet. Things seem surreal. The Master is no longer with them. The night seems darker. Every noise causes alarm. Every gesture suspicion. Those poor disciples failed to believe on
that first Holy Saturday.
And so we wait. We wait because we know that the sun will
shine its brightest tomorrow morning. We
wait with the hope in the resurrection and with joyful and expectant hearts
because what the dawn will bring is something beyond all human
understanding. The great silence on the
earth this day will soon make way for the greatest of the angelic trumpet blasts
from heaven. Dawn cannot get here soon
enough…
