The Empty Day (PDF download)

Digital download: A liturgy for group use, intended as a way of using Holy Saturday within the context of Passion liturgy, by pausing, and reflecting on a world without God, and on our own human losses. The voices of the women who kept the Sabbath, and Passover, are used as a basis for reflection.

The women are:
Susanna
Salome (here taken to be the mother of James and John and the wife of Zebedee)
Mary from Magdala
Joanna
Mary Clopas (the mother of ‘the other James’ and Joses)
Mary from Nazareth, the mother of Jesus

There are also pauses for stories from scripture, and for those present to add something from their own stories.

14 pages

Rosemary Power is a member of the Iona Community who has been in pastoral, sector and congregational ministries. She writes and speaks on the history of Iona, spirituality and issues of social justice.

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