Something strange is happening—there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep.
Those are the opening sentences in the non-scriptural reading in today's Office of Readings, an "ancient homily on Holy Saturday." It's true that Holy Saturday is not quite like any other day in the liturgical calendar. There is a pause after the intense liturgical activity of Holy Thursday and Good Friday. There is a sense of expectancy, and, as the author of the reading above put it, "a great silence and stillness."
So it seems, to us. If we read on, we see that the King may appear, to us, to be "asleep" but that is not really the case . . .
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