Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 24, 1-12

At daybreak on the first day of the week
the women who had come from Galilee with Jesus
took the spices they had prepared
and went to the tomb.
They found the stone rolled away from the tomb;
but when they entered,
they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
While they were puzzling over this, behold,
two men in dazzling garments appeared to them.
They were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground.
They said to them,
“Why do you seek the living one among the dead?
He is not here, but he has been raised.
Remember what he said to you while he was still in Galilee,
that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners
and be crucified, and rise on the third day.”
And they remembered his words.
Then they returned from the tomb
and announced all these things to the eleven
and to all the others.
The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James;
the others who accompanied them also told this to the apostles,
but their story seemed like nonsense
and they did not believe them.
But Peter got up and ran to the tomb,
bent down, and saw the burial cloths alone;
then he went home amazed at what had happened.

Holy Saturday: Time for silence

As from three o’clock in the afternoon on Friday of the Passion of the Lord, the Church turns to silence and meditation.

1. Cross. When you are crucified, whether by society, the family, or an institution, you feel pain, anxiety, fear and even loneliness. This is what we see in Jesus’s Passion, what you will live in your own passion.  Yes, your passion.

2. Death. When death occurs, there must be silence. Because silence leads you to accept death and death leads you to silence. That’s why when you go through any form of psychological death, or when a love or friendship relationship is already dead, it’s important to make room for silence. It’s important to allow for that moment of acceptance that something that has been unfolding in your life has come to an end. Silence implies internalizing and also incarnating. I believe that it’s difficult to be silent, but once you manage it, your inner self and your heart speak with God. Maybe today you need to be silent in order to resurrect.

3. The tomb. The tomb will no longer be a place of death, rather, it becomes the womb of Life, where your eternity and mine will be conceived. This is the novelty for us. There will be moments in life that you’ll have to go unnoticed, to live in silence and even in oblivion, but it’s a stage, part of a process. You have to look for your “tomb”, but considering the new sense, the new concept. The novelty here is that, if you were hurt and humiliated, if you were killed and crucified, you need your time of solitude, to get away from everything, to enter into your nothingness to be able to be completely reborn. 

Awaiting Resurrection…