Holy Saturday: “Mary Magdalene and The Other Mary: A Song for All Maries” by Christina Rossetti.

 

Courtesy of bilgrimage.blogspot.comOur Master lies asleep and is at rest:

His Heart has ceased to bleed, His Eye to weep:

The sun ashamed has dropt down in the west

Our Master lies asleep.

 

Now we are they who weep, and trembling keep

Vigil, with wrung heart in a sighing breast,

While slow time creeps, and slow the shadows creep.

Renew Thy youth, as eagle from the nest;

O Master, who hast sown, arise to reap:

No cock crow yet, no flush on eastern crest:

Our Master lies asleep.

John Pungente, SJ, the editor of igNation, is currently doing research with Monty Williams, SJ for a third book in the series "Finding God in the Dark".

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