Holy Saturday

hoping each of you have a very BLESSED
EASTER SATURDAY! 
knowing that the tomb/grave was empty
the sacrifices our KING JESUS gave
so that we can have eternal life.

Holy Saturday

Do you not know that all of us who have been

 baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into

 his death? Therefore we have been buried with

 him by baptism into death, so that, just as

Christ was raised from the dead by the glory 

of the Father, so we too might walk in

 newness of life.

For if we have been united with him in

 a death like his, we will certainly be united

 with him in a resurrection like his. We know

 that our old self was crucified with him so

 that the body of sin might be destroyed,

 and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.

 For whoever has died is freed from sin.

 But if we have died with Christ, we believe

 that we will also live with him. We know 

that Christ, being raised from the dead, will

 never die again; death no longer has dominion 

over him. The death he died, he died to sin, 

once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 

So you also must consider yourselves dead to 

sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:3-11

• Tonight we affirm our ancient faith: Christ has

 robbed death of its ultimate sting and has invigorated

 this sweet, precious, precarious, 

once-only life that is slipping away from us with

 every hour and day and year.

• When we breathe the evening air, when

 we catch the sweet smells of the new season,

we have hints of a day that knows no ending,

 a light that will not yield to darkness, and a life

 in these weary bodies that even creeping death 

will not be able to frustrate or despoil. 

We yearn for new life.