Holy Saturday: Between Cross and Dawn: Waiting with Hope 🕯️

Holy Saturday feels like a held breath.

In today’s reflection, we sit with the in-between day of Holy Week — the day between Cross and Resurrection, between heartbreak and glory, between what has already happened and what has not yet been revealed.

This episode of From Hosanna to Alleluia is for anyone who knows the ache of unfinished stories, unanswered prayers, or seasons that feel sealed shut and suspended in waiting. Holy Saturday reminds us that what feels unresolved is not abandoned. Even when everything looks still on the surface, Christ is not idle. He is at work in hidden places.

The Church gives us this day not to rush past, but to inhabit with trust. To wait without forcing. To remain in the middle without mistaking silence for absence. To remember that resurrection often begins underground, long before the stone is rolled away.

In this episode:

✨ Holy Saturday as the unresolved middle

Opening Scripture:

“Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumed oils. Then they rested on the sabbath according to the commandment.” — Luke 23:56 📖

A question to carry into prayer:

Where in my life am I being asked to wait without rushing, and to trust that God is still at work beneath what I cannot yet see? 🤍

Part of From Hosanna to Alleluia, a special Holy Week series from Choppin’ Wood.

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