The Lord Is My Chef Breakfast Recipe for Holy Saturday, 03 April 2021
Help us to be silent today, O God our Father as we remember your Son Jesus Christ’s Great Silence – Magnum Silentium – when he was “crucified, died and was buried; he descended to the dead and on the third day he rose again.”
On this Holy Saturday, your whole creation comes to full circle. In the beginning, after completing your work of creation, you rested on the seventh day and made it holy (Gen.2:3). On the seventh day after completing his mission here on earth, Jesus Christ was laid to rest.
Silence and rest always go together.
To be silent is not merely being quiet but listening more to your voice coming from the depths of our being; hence, it is not emptiness but fullness with you, dear God. It is in silence where we truly discover our selves and others too.
On the other hand, to rest is not merely to stop work nor stop from being busy. We rest to reconnect with you to be filled with your Holy Spirit. You do not actually rest, O God, because you never get tired; it is us who need to rest so we may continue your work of creation and, now of redemption and renewal by Jesus Christ.
When we rest, we return to Eden, like the garden where Jesus was buried: “Now in the place where he had been crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been buried. So they laid Jesus there because of the Jewish preparation day; for the tomb was close by” (Jn. 19:41-42).
How beautiful is that image, O dear Father, of your rest and silence in Eden and of Jesus laid to rest at a tomb in a garden: to rest in silence is therefore when we stop playing God as we return to you as your image and likeness again!
Maybe that is why many of us these days are afraid of silence because it is the realm of trust and of truth. We have always been afraid to trust you and be truthful to you and ourselves that have caused the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ.
Teach us to be like those women who rested on the sabbath when Jesus was laid to rest. That like them, we may trust you more by being true to ourselves even in the midst of a raging second wave of COVID-19 this Holy Saturday.
May your silence and rest reassure us that we shall rise with you again. Amen.
The women who had come from Galilee with him followed behind, and when they had seen the tomb and the way in which his body was laid in it, they returned and prepared spices and perfumed oils. Then they rested on the sabbath according to the commandment.
Luke 23:55-56
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Thank you Fr. Nick for today’s prayer/reflection i’m still not used to the new schedule of your blog posting hihihii, just wanna share po If you know the song Holy Darkness Father, God is truly the God of Silence the lyrics goes as “as we await you oh God of silence we embrace your holy night” this is also one of fave songs it’s fitting for me every holy week because this is the time to be silent to reflect and connect to God, the sisters in our school always teaches us that God will give no warning when He comes so until that day we must pray in silence and be one with him. I can relate that to what you said when we’re in the realm if silence the truth is present and in the previous blogs you said that truthfulness is also a way to be holy or it unlocks the path to holiness. everything goes hand in hand, it’s like your a teacher at school teaching topic per topic of one whole lesson 🙂
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Will check that song… blessed Holy Saturday.
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