“The Holy Saturday of our life must be the preparation
for Easter, the persistent hope for the final glory of God. If we live the Holy
Saturday of our existence properly, this will not be a merely ideological
addition to this common life as the mean between its contraries. It is realized
in what makes our everyday life specifically human: in the patience that can
wait, in the sense of humor which does not take things too seriously, in being
prepared to let others be first, in the courage which always seeks for a way
out of the difficulties. The virtue of our daily life is the hope which does
what is possible and expects God to do the impossible. To express it somewhat
paradoxically, but nevertheless seriously: the worst has actually already
happened; we exist, and even death cannot deprive us of this. Now is the Holy
Saturday of our ordinary life, but there will also be Easter, our true and
eternal life.”—German Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner (1904-1984), Grace in Freedom (1969)
The image accompanying this post, The Resurrection,
was painted by the Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1445-1510)
around 1490.
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