Session 4

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Reflection & Prayer

How are you feeling about the things covered in this session? Are there any areas in which you’d appreciate prayer - get in touch.


Holy Saturday calls for trust, patience and a certain de ant hope. Finish now with a prayer from Alan E. Lewis, one of the few theologians who made it his life’s work to study Holy Saturday:

Hear our prayer for a world still living an Easter Saturday existence, 

oppressed and lonely, 

guilty of godlessness 

and convinced of godforsakenness. 

Be still tomorrow the God you are today, 

and yesterday already were: 

God with us in the grave, 

but pulling thus the sting of death 

and promising in your final kingdom an even greater victory 

of abundant grace and life over the magnitude of sin and death. 

And for your blessed burial, into which we were baptized, 

may you be glorified for evermore. Amen.

Resources

The poem Kneeling, by R S Thomas

Moments of great calm, Kneeling before an altar

Of wood in a stone church

In summer, waiting for the God To speak; 

the air a staircase 

For silence; the sun’s light 

Ringing me, as though I acted 

A great role. 

And the audiences 

Still; all that close throng

Of spirits waiting, as I,

For the message.

Prompt me, God;

But not yet. 

When I speak, 

Though it be you who speak 

Through me, something is lost. 

The meaning is in the waiting.


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