Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 28, 1-10

After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning,
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.
And behold, there was a great earthquake;
for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven,
approached, rolled back the stone, and sat upon it.
His appearance was like lightning
and his clothing was white as snow.
The guards were shaken with fear of him
and became like dead men.
Then the angel said to the women in reply,
“Do not be afraid!
I know that you are seeking Jesus the crucified.
He is not here, for he has been raised just as he said.
Come and see the place where he lay.
Then go quickly and tell his disciples,
‘He has been raised from the dead,
and he is going before you to Galilee;
there you will see him.’
Behold, I have told you.”
Then they went away quickly from the tomb,
fearful yet overjoyed,
and ran to announce this to his disciples.
And behold, Jesus met them on their way and greeted them.
They approached, embraced his feet, and did him homage.
Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid.
Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee,
and there they will see me.”

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…