Holy Saturday is a day of silent recollection and prayer.

After the death of Jesus, a few faithful friends remained: Our Blessed Mother, St. John, St. Mary Magdalen and the other pious women, “who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to Him” (Matthew 27:55). Love kept them near the lifeless Body, unable to go elsewhere.

How well many of us can identify to being unable to leave a beloved who has died!

It is easy to be faithful to God when everything goes easily, when blessings are abundant and God’s cause triumphant. However, to be equally faithful in the hour of darkness, when the shadow is cast, when, for a time, God permits evil to get an upper hand, when everything that is good and holy seems to be swept away and lost forever – this is very hard. And such faithfulness is most daring display of genuine love.