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Scripture Reflections for Holy Saturday At the Easter Vigil

Year C, Lectionary 41

THEMES: Abraham • Baptism • Change • Covenant • Creation • Darkness • Eucharist • Family • History • Isaiah • Kingdom • Light • Moses • Passover • Resurrection • Salvation • Sin • Tomb •

Genesis 1:1-31, 2:1-2

Psalm 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12-14, 24, 35 or Psalm 33:4-7, 12-13, 20, 22

Genesis 22:1-18

Psalm 16:5, 8-11

Exodus 14:15-31, 15:1

Exodus 15:1-6, 17-18

Isaiah 54:5-14

Psalm 30:2, 4-6, 11-13

Isaiah 55:1-11

Isaiah 12:2-6

Baruch 3:9-15, 32-38, 4:1-4

Psalm 19:8-11

Ezekiel 36:16-28

Psalm 42:3, 5; 43:3-4 or Isaiah 12:2-6 or Psalm 51:12-15, 18-19

Romans 6:3-11

“very rarely, however, have I been to a baptism where the baptism was described as crucifixion. As a co-crucifixion with Christ where the emphasis was put on the fact that...this person is being baptized into the death of Jesus. But that's how Paul sees baptism” -Brant Pitre

Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23

Luke 24:1-12

“the foundational truth of Christianity involves a corpse, right, being transfigured and resurrected and entering into a new state in which that body would never die again” -Brant Pitre

“We sing 'change,' we like to hear about change but changes can't be a song. It's gotta be something we do each and every day to try our best to pass over from what was to what God has in store for us.” -Fr. Stephen Thorne

Overall Readings

“the incarnation was also a “marriage” of human and divine nature which seemed to be “divorced” by the death of Christ, only to be quickly restored and resumed by the Resurrection. So Easter is the re-affirmation of God’s uniting of his nature to ours in the mystical marriage of the hypostatic union.”

John Bergsma. "The Easter Vigil." The Sacred Page. April 14, 2022

“And just like in the first moment of creation, nobody witnessed it except the One who has the power to create. He chose to rise in the silence of the night to show his victory over darkness and to reconnect us to the event of the first creation. But in this case, He did not just create, He equally redeemed.”

Fr. Lawrence Obilor. "The Night of a New Creation." A Catholic Moment. April 11, 2020

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