Today, for the believers, is Holy Saturday. Every year, we celebrate Holy Week and Holy Saturday is one day before Easter Sunday. Most of us do not feel holy during the so-called holy week but most of us feel renewed in faith and challenged to consider the reasons why being holy is not easy to come by.
Being an elderly myself and soon a retiree, I still can not readily say I feel holy during the holy week or that I have lived a holy life. Perhaps thisis one reality of being a senior, an elderly and soon a retiree, that life has been good enough to us in this category that the feeling of being holy is encapsulated in the gift of long life. So today, Holy Saturday, here I am in the apartment of my son, cleaning and feeling happy and holy this way. All mt four grown children are out there rafting and enjoying each other's presence while not one of them has decided to get married. In a way they are celebrating Holy Saturday in the cocoon of family relationships.
Tomorrow, Easter Sunday, the whole family will go to the beach and celebrate Irene's birthday, the eldest of the siblings and my only girl. It is a time when family takes center stage allowing a taste of heaven when the family members nd praise God for love each other amid all the ups and downs of life's reality.
Thank you God for the gift of Holy week, for the gift of presence.
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