Photo was taken in the Blascaod Centre in Dun Chaoin, on the tip of the Dingle Peninsula, Co.Kerry

Belinda Hutchinson, Ciara Mulhern, Diane Keating and Hannah O’Sullivan are all smiles under a Curragh.

Thought on Saturday – April – 07/04/2012

‘The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.’ ~Robert Flatt

The Resurrection is the hinge stone on which we rest everything. Without Easter and the Resurrection our lives are simply in a meaningless spin. At the heart of our Easter message is new life, energy, celebration and new beginnings. Yesterday Good Friday could best be described as a dark bleak day touching in on all our sadness and struggles. But in the middle of the mess of Good Friday, God has the last word. Today Holy Saturday is a day of waiting until God does indeed have the last word. That last word will shatter the darkness and despair of Good Friday. We wait in expectation………Happy Easter

I also like the following reflection from Holy Saturday’ last year.

‘Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first and is waiting for it.’ ~Terry Pratchett

Today Holy Saturday is a day of waiting. You could call it the ‘in between day’. You could also call it a strange day. Darkness seems to have got there first. The fallout from Good Friday is massive. The disciples have fled. There is total grief, shock, dismay. Everything seems to have collapsed with the death of Jesus. Nothing makes sense. Darkness has truly taken over. Sometimes we have to wait in darkness, wait in the middle of our struggles, wait in our anxious and lonely days before something may happen. If darkness has got there first, then when the light does come, it will completely shatter it. This is the Easter story. The resurrection of Jesus will shatter the darkness. It has no escape. In its place is a great sense of hope, new beginnings and a new journey. We are not on our own. Many like you and me are in waiting. We wait for the light to shine into our darkness. We are Easter people and without the light of the Resurrection we have nothing to hold onto. Life is meaningless without it. As we wait I wish you a very Happy Easter.