Signs of the Times: Betwixt Friday and Sunday: The Place of Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation

Abstract

If anyone has been a part of the liturgical team at a parish or been involved in any way with parish life, you know that we celebrate Holy Thursday and Good Friday with a powerful liturgy and ritual, but as soon as Good Friday is over, the lilies come out and the sanctuary is decorated for Easter. Holy Saturday, it seems, becomes a liturgical void as we prepare for Easter—it is a marginalized and forgotten in-between space; it becomes, even if unintentionally, an “other.”