Day 40 in Lent (HOLY SATURDAY): Mortification
“You cannot have forgotten that all of us, when we were baptized into Christ Jesus, were baptized into his death. So by our baptism into his death we were buried with him…. But we believe that, if we died with Christ, then we shall live with him too.”- Rom. 6:3-4, 8
If God, whose only desire is to give life, chose to experience death with us, then death cannot be the end. There must be hope beyond it, a promise not completed within this brief life.
Mortification—learning that everything is mortal—is not morbid but freeing: it teaches us to cherish life as a gift rather than cling to it as a possession.
Every moment of life carries both joy and loss, reminding us that all living is also a gradual letting go.
Our Prayer:
I call to you, Yahweh, all day. I stretch out my hands to you.
Do you work wonders for the dead? Can shadows rise up to praise you? Do they speak in the grave of your faithful love, of your constancy in the place of perdition? Are your wonders known in the darkness, your saving justice in the land of oblivion?
But, for my part. I cry to you, Yahweh, every morning my prayer comes before you. – Ps. 88:9-13
