Today is the second day in a holy trinity of Christian observances. Yeterday, Good Friday, was the observation of Jesus’s crucifixion. It was grief. Tomorrow, Easter, is the observation of Jesus’s triumph over death and suffering. It is joy. Today, Holy Saturday, is, in many ways, an observation of absence. It is the necessary interstitial space between where we are and where we want to be. It exists as the reverberation of the thing that came before and uncertainty about the thing that will come after. It is the longing for clarity and relief. It is mourning.
AGREED - “It is in the wake of the horrific that the foundations of humility and consciousness are constructed.”