Share Share Tweet Tweet Email . Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Off-subject: The vaccines are working in the U.S. How anyone can honestly think otherwise is beyond my comprehension... Not to... Evolution? Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. by Daniel Jepsen | Apr 3, 2021 | Uncategorized | 4 comments. He descended into hell. The second poem is more recent, and is unique (at least to me) in telling the story from the point of view of the souls who had gone before. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. He descended into hell. The stone is heavy; life's re strained and Lord you dream; a waiting resur rection when your vessel, silent coffin, will be broken, pouring chrism over dusty hearts, a nointing nations, calling us to rise a gain. Posted on March 26, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller. They laid Jesus there. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Neither with Elisha or assembled scores of saints. […], […] Poems for Holy Saturday | Lent & Beyond […]. He spares not time for greetings. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Excuse me Rick, where did I call all Jewish Israelis fundamentalists? The poetry of Holy Saturday is fundamentally the work of silence, of willing but ultimately flawed expression. The Sister’s line “confused with joy” is brilliant, and the ending pushed the poem up to a higher level beyond mere piety. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Film: The Tree of Life This is a film you must encounter almost as a visual symphony rather than a linear narrative. Whither art thou thrown? Past King David he swift moves. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Truth of Holy Saturday: Only the wound is there. It’s traditionally known as the “harrowing of hell,” when Jesus announced salvation to all the righteous who had died before his coming. Please make sure … Holy Saturday, the day between the cross and the resurrection, holds a dearer spot in my heart as I age. Holy Saturday around the blogosphere | Lent & Beyond, Holy Week: Index of Holy Week devotionals, prayers, quotes and resources here at Lent & Beyond | Lent & Beyond, Music for Easter - A wonderful anthem: Christ Our Passover is Sacrificed for us - Richard Dirksen, A five minute Lent retreat: Fernando Ortega - I stretched out my hands, A Compilation of 70 Favorite Easter and Eastertide Hymns, Easter Worship - Behold Our God (free download at We Are Worship), * Advent Category (all Advent posts on the blog), *Index of all L&B Advent Entries (2004 – 2006), Christian Resource Institute – Advent page, Holy Trinity New Rochelle – Advent Resources, Jesse Tree Devotions (Older youth / adults), Lift Up Your Hearts (Advent, Christmas, Epiphany Links). The Auden poem’s called “Funeral Blues”, and gained much popular traction after it was used in “Four Weddings and a Funeral”. Reading one poem a day throughout this holy season and writing a poem or two along the way. Holy Saturday tells us that Jesus entered death and stayed dead. Today is Holy Saturday! He sleeps, but does not rest. Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. Music: Heinrich Biber, "Passacaglia" Passacaglia is a piece based on four notes, which bring to mind walking, for me the walking of Christ to the cross. ( Log Out /  Against All the Dark (A Poem for Easter Vigil) An impressionist film exploring what grace means in a broken world, what it means to love, what redemption might be for those who do. None toned a psalm, or raised a greeting song. Limbo. On Holy Saturday, Christians remember that while his dead body was laying in a tomb, Jesus’ soul “descended into the dead,” as the Apostle’s Creed says. Receive thee? It has its own patterns and rituals that take up a little of that empty space of waiting. For nothing now can ever come to any good. To help me along (and because I’m a big ol’ J on the Meyers-Briggs), I compiled a list to get organized. Easter Eve: A Fantasy. In this spirit and vein, a poem from Elizabeth Rooney called “Easter Saturday.” A curiously empty day, As if the world’s life Had gone underground. This Holy Saturday reading on the descent of the Lord Jesus into Hell is used in the Roman Church’s Office of Readings for Holy Saturday, with the accompanying biblical reading of Hebrews 4:1-13. A robin foraged, unaware, her life one long, innate obedience. No lodging for thee, but a cold hard stone? The gap was long enough that he truly tasted death (Hebrews 2:9) and experienced the pangs of being in death’s grip (Acts 2:24). post A poem for Holy Saturday. My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; Here is the good poem: (about Good Friday) Salvator Mundi: Via Crucis Denise Levertov. What if you are calling us to trust. Nor Moses nor Hannah hold him as he journeys. And maybe this is why we gravitate most to this type of writing. for Holy Saturday was the Jewish day of preparation and the tomb was nearby. “SEPULCHER” – by George Herbert. The “harrowing of hell” and the rescue of Adam and Eve was a popular theme in early and medieval Christian poetry, liturgy and song. He fully entered the land from which no one returns. ( Log Out /  Anger Relaxes into despair As we remember our helplessness, Remember him hanging there. This poem is actually for Easter Sunday rather than Holy Saturday today. This entry was posted on Saturday, April 19th, 2014 at 6:00 pm and is filed under Holy Week, Lent Resources, Poems, Hymns and Songs. The first is by the British poet, W. H. Auden. He undertook the great loneliness of death as part of his redeeming us. Thank you for subscribing. And so, I figured I would share the poem, “Limbo,” by Sister Mary Ada for today… along with two artworks that beautifully illustrate the poem, in my opinion. The lawnmower hummed, cutting down the green shoots tending heavenward. Working out how they were to deal, now, with those last … When you are making all things new. Loading... Unsubscribe from Parish Office? Descent into Limbo, by Master of the Osservanza, c. 1445. The April sun Warming dry grass Makes pale spring promises But nothing comes to pass. “To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this … Well, that's in the past for the most part. Holy Saturday: Sepulchre, by George Herbert. Emily Polis Gibson: Great Gaps. We have purchased the spices I remembered that tax is due in weeks, and more than that will be required of me, eventually.

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