Holy Saturday
Holy Saturday is a day of mourning and waiting. There’s nothing to do. It is, after all, Sabbath. Holy Saturday is a postscript to Good Friday and a preface to Easter Sunday. Whether postscript or preface depends on where one enters it spiritually. Some years it will be the one and some the other. I share this for those (like me) entering from the Good Friday side this year. The Smashing Pumpkins song “Tales of a Scorched Earth” definitely parses Holy Saturday in a postscript mode. It’s an anthem for this day when it is experienced as the “end” for Jesus and also for us. “Farewell goodnight last one out turn out the lights And let me be, let me die inside Let me know the way from of this world of hate in you Cause the dye is cast, and the bitch is back And we're all dead yeah we're all dead Inside the future of a shattered past I lie just to be real, and I'd die just to feel Why do the same old things keep ...