Our Holy Days: Easter

~ by Samir Selmanovic    

Soon, we will embark on a journey of searching through the rich treasures of our holy days, festivals, observances, both through our upcoming Faith House gatherings and this website. As an early start, here is a quote by Rose Marie Berger describing an aspect of Easter, Holy Saturday, a time when death is the only reality and resurrection does not look like even a faint possibility.

"As a child, I was terrified of Good Friday and Holy Saturday. I dreaded those hours of "time out of time" that stretched between 3 p.m. on Friday when Jesus officially died on the cross and Jesus' resurrection, with a clap of alleluias, on Easter morning. It was in those in-between hours that God was dead---and we were alone in the world.

Suddenly, there was no spiritual safety net. Chaos ruled the world and we were defenseless against it. The isolation was nearly unbearable. As an adult, I learned theological mind-tricks to protect me from this fear of God's ultimate abandonment. But I confess, sometimes when I wake at 3 a.m., all I hear in the universe is emptiness..."

~ Rose Marie Berger