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Holy Saturday

Holy Saturday

A poem for you

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J.C. Scharl
Apr 03, 2021
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A blessed Good Friday and Holy Saturday to you all.

Here’s a poem I wrote a while back about these strange hours between the death of Our Lord and His Resurrection (during a time of deep reflection on Thomas Merton’s verse, see if you can sense Merton’s influence).

Holy Saturday

Thunder, darkness, flood are gone, and now there is complete

silence. We clin…

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