Saturday, April 08, 2023

Holy Saturday

Christ to his Mother, in the chanted homily On the Lament of the Mother of God, by Romanos the Melodian (6th century):

Should I not suffer? Not die? How then shall I save Adam?
Should I not dwell in a tomb? How then shall I draw to life those in hell?
... Why, then, do you weep, Mother? Rather shout out,
"Willingly he suffered, my Son and my God!"

The Lamentation
Petrus Christus Netherlandish, ca. 1450
The Metropolitan Museum of Art



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