Image via WikipediaThis morning's Liturgy of the Hours had a reading that just referenced, "From an ancient homily on Holy Saturday." I found it to be Lectio Divina heaven; e.g.
Something strange is happening-----there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness...He [Jesus] has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow the captives of Adam and Eve, he who is both God and the son of Eve...
I am your God, who for your sake have become your son. Out of love for you and for your descendants I now by my own authority command all who are held in bondage to come forth, all who are in darkness to be enlightened, all who are sleeping to arise. I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead. Rise up, work of my hands, you who were created in my image. Rise, let us leave this place, for you are in me and I am in you; together we form only one person and we cannot be separated.
Rise let us leave this place. The enemy led you out of the earthly paradise...The kingdom of heaven has been prepared for you from all eternity.
The world mourned then. But I know the ending to this story and it's a happy one because I don't pray to dead people. I pray to people alive in Christ. Ora pro nobis.
Something strange is happening-----there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness...He [Jesus] has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow the captives of Adam and Eve, he who is both God and the son of Eve...
I am your God, who for your sake have become your son. Out of love for you and for your descendants I now by my own authority command all who are held in bondage to come forth, all who are in darkness to be enlightened, all who are sleeping to arise. I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead. Rise up, work of my hands, you who were created in my image. Rise, let us leave this place, for you are in me and I am in you; together we form only one person and we cannot be separated.
Rise let us leave this place. The enemy led you out of the earthly paradise...The kingdom of heaven has been prepared for you from all eternity.
The world mourned then. But I know the ending to this story and it's a happy one because I don't pray to dead people. I pray to people alive in Christ. Ora pro nobis.
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