Liturgical metaphor

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People don't often think about Easter Saturday, and why would they? It's a Saturday awkwardly placed in between two important days in the Christian religious calendar. But, when you stop and think about it, as Fred Clark did in 2010, and reposted once a year afterward, it is a very fitting metaphor for the human condition....  

"This day, the Saturday that can’t know if there will ever be a Sunday, is the day we live in, you and I, today and every day for the whole of our lives. This is all we are given to know.

Easter Sunday? That’s tomorrow, the day after today. We’ll never get there in time. We can believe in Easter Sunday, but we can’t be sure. We can’t know for sure. We can’t know until we’re out of time."

 

 

Come tomorrow, of course, my mother-in-law will be texting everyone about the Resurrection. Far be it from me to spoil her joy, but will the meek inherit the earth on April 20th? Will Love win over Power? Will those who thirst for justice go thirsty no more? 

Faith can and does manage. But as things stand, Perpetual Saturday may well be all we ever see.

We can hope, of course.

www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/04/17/holy-saturday-14/