Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"
In other years: Saint Bernadette Soubirous, Patron Saint of the Sick (1844-1879)
Happy 95th Birthday to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Readings of the Day
Rule of Saint Benedict: Ch 61:6-14 The Reception of Visiting Monks
The One who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens,
that He might fill all things.
MARY, QUEEN OF PEACE,
PRAY FOR US.
From the jaws of hell, Lord, rescue my soul.
(Holy Saturday, Morning Prayer, Antiphon 2)
So begins an ancient homily on Holy Saturday: "Something strange is happening-there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and He has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear" (in Office of Readings, Holy Saturday). I am reckoned as one in the tomb.
Christ descended precisely as dead and therefore powerless; he joined human beings at their ultimate point of helplessness and made that the place of redemption.
(M. Boulding, Gateway to Resurrection, paraphrasing Hans Urs von Balthasar, p. 127)
Arise, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
(Eph 5:14)
SAINT BERNADETTE SOUBIROUS,
PRAY FOR US.
Today's photo: Silence speaks volumes. As for me, Lord, I call to you for help: in the morning my prayer comes before you.
© Gertrude Feick 2022
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