HOLY SATURDAY

Taize The Taize Community is an ecumenical monastic order that invites people of different Christian faiths to worship together. They are well known for thei...

Taize The Taize Community is an ecumenical monastic order that invites people of different Christian faiths to worship together. They are well known for thei...

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Saturday Holy Saturday is the inspiration for some of the most fascinating medieval art that I have seen. Christ throwing open the gates of Hell and delivering the Patriarchs from these eternal fir…

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Holy Saturday has always been a rather weird day for me. Jesus is dead and buried, but we know He's going to rise on Sunday. So you feel somber but also excited for the next day. You feel weird doing an Easter Egg hunt, but also know that the pain has ended (and it just works out better time-wise that way). I make my mom's Easter bread to get ready for Sunday, but am not sure if I should watch a movie while doing it. After all, Lent's done. The 40 days are spent, right? Usually end up…

Hans Holbein the Younger (ca 1497-1543), The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (ca 1521), Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel Patrick Comerford Saturday 23 April 2011 (Holy Saturday): Whitechurch Parish, Rathfarnham Co Dublin. Reading 1: Luke 16: 19-31. Reflection 1: Hans Holbein the Younger, The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521). The German painter, Hans Holbein the Younger (ca 1497-1543), is best known for his portraits of Erasmus, Thomas More, Henry VIII and The Ambassadors, in…

One of the fabulous images for Holy Saturday is that of Jesus—after his descent into death—pulling Adam and Eve out of their tomb, their prison, and into the light and air. Their shackles fall away. Their eyes blink at the … Continue reading →

The Easter Vigil is celebrated on Holy Saturday. Prepare and celebrate by contemplating sacred art in Arts & Faith: http://www.loyolapress.com/arts-and-faith...

In the Catholic church, Holy Saturday is the final day of Lent, of Holy Week, and of the Easter Triduum, the three days preceding Easter.

From the Roman Catholic Daily Missal, 1962: Holy Saturday is liturgically a day of deepest mourning, a day which the Church spends at our Lord’s sepulcher, meditating on His sacred passion and…

On Great and Holy Friday the Orthodox Church commemorates the death of Christ on the Cross. This is the culmination of the observance of His Passion by which our Lord suffered and died for our sins. This commemoration begins on Thursday evening with the Matins of Holy Friday and concludes with a Vespers on Friday afternoon that observes the unnailing of Christ from the Cross and the placement of His body in the tomb. | Great Lent, Holy Week and Pascha in the Greek Orthodox Church

This Holy Saturday prayer can be used on Holy Saturday, which is the day before Easter. This Holy Saturday prayer can also be used when we have suffered unimaginable loss and we are desperately trying to cling to hope because it feels like God is “resting” and we cannot see that any positive changes seem…

The Silence of Holy Saturday

Read a classic poem about Easter day this Holy Saturday.