THEY TOOK NOTE OF WHERE HE WAS LAID

PRAYER MOMENT 

Holy Saturday 4 April 2015

THEY TOOK NOTE OF WHERE HE WAS LAID

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of Joset took note of where he was laid.”  (Mark 15:47)

Reflection. The women’s love for Jesus survived the trauma and loss of his death.They would be coming back. Their plan was to wait through the Sabbath and come as early as they could the next morning to anoint his body according to custom. It would be a long wait, the wait of a woman giving birth. This would be a new birth not from a womb but from a tomb. They had no idea what would happen. They just waited in trust and longing. Perhaps they had some inkling that all this suffering could not just end there. We join in their wait. It is the wait of the women of Syria, Iraq, Somalia and now Kenya.

Prayer. Lord, as we keep vigil through this day fill our hearts with hope for our world and help us make our plans to anoint our world with the balm of your Spirit. Amen.

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