{"id":2929,"date":"2024-03-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2024-03-29T11:08:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T11:08:58","slug":"kindness-in-empty-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2024\/03\/30\/kindness-in-empty-times\/uncategorized\/2929\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindness in empty times."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"
Photo by Francesco Ungaro<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some thoughts from the archives on Holy Saturday…

There is always an element of relief in arriving at Holy Saturday, if only because we\u2019ve moved through the high drama of Good Friday to a quieter, more reflective space. People often talk of Holy Saturday as a \u201ctomb day\u201d, a time to sit with the emptiness that follows death, to allow the events of Good Friday to sink in. I recognise the yearning for that and its wisdom yet, it\u2019s not an experience I recognise from monastic life.

In practice for many of us Holy Saturday is very much a hybrid day, we are aware of its emptiness, the mourning and the uncertainty. We also have to acknowledge that the Easter vigil is fast approaching and that Easter liturgies and treats do not plan themselves. So it is also a day of preparation and anticipation that can be very busy.

As we move through this hybrid day I\u2019m reflecting on these words from the lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah from this morning\u2019s Office of Readings:

\u201cThe favours of the Lord are not all past, nor his kindnesses exhausted; every morning they are renewed: great is his faithfulness. My portion is with the Lord says my soul, and so I will hope in him.\u201d<\/em>

Even in the midst of his lamentation Jeremiah is able to acknowledge the kindness and faithfulness of God, and to put his hope in that. His words speak to me of the hybrid reality of the day. It seems to me that Holy Saturday calls us to imitate God\u2019s kindness to others as we get on with the many preparations for Easter, and to ourselves as we seek small moments of quiet during the day.

As we celebrate Holy Saturday where are you aware of the Lord renewing your capacity for kindness?
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some thoughts from the archives on Holy Saturday… There is always an element of relief in arriving at Holy Saturday, if only because we\u2019ve moved through the high drama of Good Friday to a quieter, more reflective space. People often talk of Holy Saturday as a \u201ctomb day\u201d, a time to sit with the emptiness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,494,356,461,239,357,271,336,537,335,246,351,1],"tags":[28,18,53,527,280,358,101,8,526,120,33,229,525,13,29,114,10],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-christ","category-cross","category-divine-office","category-gospel","category-holy-saturday","category-lectio-divina","category-lent","category-liturgy","category-prayer","category-scripture","category-triduum","category-uncategorized","tag-benedictine","tag-challenge","tag-christ","tag-emptiness","tag-faithfulness","tag-holysaturday","tag-holyweek","tag-hope","tag-jeremiah","tag-kindness","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lamentation","tag-lectiodivina","tag-love","tag-prophet","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2937,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/2937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}