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Catholic Charities USA
Holy Saturday
What must it have felt like for the disciples on Holy Saturday? Their
leader, supposed savior, and best friend was not only dead, but had
been violently and publicly executed by the state, a practice still
carried out today through the modern death penalty. Somewhere in the
back of their minds they knew that the resurrection was on the near
horizon. However, overwhelmed by their trauma, this knowledge was not
only forgotten, but completely incomprehensible.
Mary and the disciples, paralyzed and grief-stricken, waited.
In the midst of oppression or the aftermath of violence, we long for
liberation and transformation. These times of "in-between"
can be utterly excruciating. Many times we ask ourselves, "Where
is God in this?"
Where was Jesus on Holy Saturday? True, he was no longer on earth with
the disciples and not yet in heaven either. Each week, at Mass, we are
reminded that on this day "he descended into Hell." How
often I speed past this part of the story, and yet how critical it is!
Jesus immersed himself deeper into the suffering of the human soul
than he ever experienced on earth. He went to the ultimate margin to
be with those sentenced to the prison of isolation, separated from God
and community.
It was from this place of suffering that Jesus rose. With him, he
freed souls in captivity to know eternal life, joy, and loving
relationship. His resurrection would not have been fulfilled without
this radical act of solidarity.
Fr. David Kelly, a restorative justice facilitator in Chicago, talks
about peacemaking circles as spaces where we honor one another's
dignity, live our shared woundedness, and journey together to find
healing as a community.
We create these sacred spaces because Jesus did it for us, that we may
know and imitate the ultimate vision of healing, reconciliation, and
wholeness. But in order to get there, we cannot skip over the deep,
difficult, and necessary work of encountering our mutual woundedness.
As believers in the risen Christ, we know all things are possible with
God's grace, mercy, and justice. In our call to charity
and justice, may we live as an Easter people who encounter woundedness
and embrace the transformative power of in-between moments, like Holy
Saturday.
Caitlin Morneau is Director of Restorative Justice at Catholic
Mobilizing Network in Washington, DC - the national organization
working to end the death penalty and promote restorative justice
through education, advocacy, and prayer. She is also an alumni of
Catholic Charities Project SERVE in Baltimore.
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