by Chris Koellhoffer, IHM April 19, 2019
Welcome to this waiting time! Instead of offering a new post this weekend, I invite you to re-visit my post of March 31, 2018: The Space We Live Most of Our Lives. This speaks to the waiting of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, when so much is unknown, uncertain, unfinished, longing for life-giving resolution.
This is most certainly the waiting that is part of our everyday lives. To wait with patience, to wait with openness, to wait while actively working to bring a deeper peace and a wider justice into our world, to wait with hope when the realities around us seem to trumpet only death and despair.
In this sacred time, may we hold in tenderness and prayer all those who are watching and waiting at the bedside of loved ones on their final journey, all those waiting for freedom, for safety, for an end to conflict, for a place to call home.
Wishing you every blessing of these holy days and on the new life unfolding in the Easter season.
NOTE:
May I ask you to hold in prayer two upcoming events:
April 26: Greening Our Lives, a day for healthcare professionals I’m leading at Geisinger Holy Spirit Hospital, Camp Hill, PA
May 4: Spiritual Spa Day, a time of self-care and renewal offered at Our Lady of Grace Center, Manhasset, NY
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this entire presentation for Holy Sat I hope and pray that you have a blessed Easter and Spa Day goes well. I’d love to be there but have First Communion that day-Joan
I’m in the Holy Saturday waiting mode with you, Joan. Wishing you every blessing of these Easter days.