Throughout the Lenten season, we have been posting reflections for holy days and Sundays from both this year’s Lenten reflection booklet, Peace compels us, which includes all-new reflections written by Bishop John Stowe and Michael Martin, and from previously published Lenten booklets, such as the one below, written by Michael Vazquez for the 2020 Lenten reflection booklet, Fasting towards freedom.
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REFLECTION FOR Holy Saturday, April 4, 2026
by Michael Vazquez
Originally published in 2020
“In the beginning …” Genesis 1:1
The author of Genesis writes that in the beginning all was good. In fact, the author writes, that after the creation of everything, God saw it and said it was exceedingly good. Jesus’ death on the cross, for all its tragedy, is cause for us to look back and remember our origins. Our inherent goodness. Our inherent beauty. Our inherent belovedness. And above all, our inherent intimacy with the Divine. With his life, his ministry, Jesus set us on track to correct the wrongs of this world. With his death, Jesus has gone to repair the cosmic tear in our relationship to the Divine. And He’s coming back. Wait for him. In the piercing silence of tragedy, rise and go. Wait for him. He is coming. Just like he promised.
Will you wait for him?
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