Writes Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy: Holy Saturday is a day about death, darkness, defeat, and silence. It is the day when two thousand years ago the secular and religious power-boys in Jerusalem laid back, kicked off their sandals, and congratulated themselves on a job of death and destruction “well done.” The silence of the day is the silence of death. It is also a fear-induced silence in the living as they shiver at the knowledge and recent display of the power over life and death that the power-boys have, and could use at any minute against them. Holy Saturday is … Continue reading The Day of the Victory of Death