In the Breviary for Holy Saturday, we find an “Ancient Homily.” I have always loved this reading. It begins: “Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silent because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept since the world began.” The earth turns in stillness. We think of all who “have slept since the world began.” These are the dead who during all these ages have awaited the Resurrection.
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