In some real sense, the Holy Triduum teaches us that Christians are a Holy Saturday people because we cling to a hope for the coming light precisely when the night is darkest. As his first followers awaited his promised rise from the pit, so we believers in the Resurrection now await the Second Coming and the fulfillment of his promise of a New Jerusalem where there is no more sorrow and pain, where former things have passed away. Christians are a Holy Saturday people because we embrace the simultaneously sorrowful and joyful tension toward the divine ground of being in this vale of tears.
The Paschal light has spread through the congregation, as if lighting the bedchamber in preparation for the Bridegroom’s coming. And the somber anticipation turns to an excited yearning, like that felt by Peter and John when they sprinted to the empty tomb. And then the brilliant flash of light before the Gloria is sung. He is coming.
--Kody W. Cooper
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