Holy Saturday

 I feel like this is the day in the church calendar that nobody really knows what to do with.

The passion is over, the resurrection has yet to occur.

But this is the day that God is dead. Christ, who made all things, has laid down His life, and on this day, God the Son is dead.

I don't even know how to begin to understand how this is possible.

God is completely One, and yet completely 3 Persons, and one of those Persons is dead. God the Father and God the Holy Spirit are somehow left without the Son, meaning that the perfect community of God that is the Trinity is, on this day, different than it has always been. How can one member of the Trinity be dead? I can't explain it, and I can't understand it.

All I know is that if a Person of the Trinity was dead, if God the Son had died, then this must have been the saddest full day in all of existence, for all of nature must have ached at His absence.

Holy Saturday, the day God rested in the tomb.

I'm praying for you!