This is a long Holy Saturday, which is now about to end. And so, let your prayer become more intense. Do not allow yourselves to become absorbed or taken up by activity and by excessive preoccupation. In the moment of suffering, in the sorrows of the last times through which you are living, I urge you to keep watch with me in assiduous prayer.
In the long Holy Saturday through which you are living, keep watch with me in confidence and in hope. In the sepulchre of your long Holy Saturday, iniquity and human misery are buried once and for all; evil and sin, pride and hatred, impurity and arrogance and every form of corruption and death are laid away.
In the long Holy Saturday of these last times of yours, you must above all keep watch with me in expectation. That which made lighter for me the great sorrow of this day, was the certitude that Jesus was to be gloriously risen. The Saturday of the sepulchre was to be succeeded by the first day of the resurrection.
Even though you are still living the pain, the fatigue, the suffering and the death of this long Holy Saturday, live with me in expectation. Jesus will return on the clouds of heaven, to restore his reign of glory and to make all things new. Beloved children, live with me today, in the expectation of this, his return."
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