I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of mercy and supplication, so that when they look on him whom they have thrust through, they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and they will grieve for him as one grieves over a firstborn. (Zechariah 12:10)
https://www.vatican.va/spirit/documents/spirit_20010414_omelia-sabato-santo_en.html
“Today there is a great silence over the earth, a great silence, and stillness, a great silence because the King sleeps”—from an ancient homily for Holy Saturday. We enter into this silence carrying with us all the hurts of this world, the pains of the hungry, the forgotten, the abandoned; the heartbreak of those who have lost loved ones in war; the sorrow of the displaced who have lost hearth and home; and the terrible toll of an exhausting pandemic that never ends. Yet, in this silence we wait.
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
Holy Saturday of the Sorrowful Mother
