When You Cannot Roll The Stone Away, Keep Showing Up

About this episode

The episode reflects on the significance of Holy Saturday and the anticipation of resurrection amidst trauma and silence.

Holy Saturday can feel like the truest day on the calendar: the trauma already happened, the silence is loud, and nobody can promise you what comes next. We sit with that ache and still insist on a bigger word: resurrection is coming. Not as a spiritual slogan, but as a lived reality that meets broken hearts, ruptured relationships, and the places where love seems to get nothing back. We open John’s Gospel while it is “still dark” and let it read like a new creation story. Mary Magdalene kee...

Topics covered

• resurrection
• Holy Saturday
• John's Gospel
• Mary Magdalene
• spirituality

Keywords

• broken hearts
• ruptured relationships
• new creation story

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