Saturday April 15
Holy Saturday. The day when God lay dead in the tomb and the world groped in darkness without Him. But not for long. As the day ended, deep down the chaos and the deadness a new creation was happening. God in Christ defeats death for ever, making our resurrection from death a possibility and actuality. Mary and her friends go to the tomb seeking death and its stink. What meets them at the tomb is the irrepressible aroma of life. “Why look for the living among the dead?” Christ is risen, indeed! The resurrection of Christ was the laughter of God at the defeat of death and sin. The holy Mother Church cannot contain her joy today. So She breaks into the Exsultet. She does so, even calling the sin of Adam a “happy fault” and “necessary sin,” for it “gained for us so great a Redeemer!” Let us laugh our hearts out and rejoice!
