Waiting can be one of the hardest lessons of faith. We want answers, solutions, and change quickly, but the Gospel reminds us that God’s work unfolds in His time, not ours. Pope Leo XIV reflected on this mystery during his recent General Audience, pointing to Holy Saturday as a profound example of how silence and waiting become a place of grace, according to Vatican News.
“Every suspended time can become a time of grace, if we offer it to God,” the Holy Father said, urging Christians not to fear those moments when life feels barren or unresolved. Holy Saturday, often called the “day of great silence,” invites us to see that God works even in what seems empty or useless.
The Pope drew on the image of Christ’s rest in the tomb, reminding the faithful that just as God rested after creation, so too did Jesus rest after completing His saving work. Yet this rest was not inactivity, it was the quiet beginning of something new. “In the tomb, Jesus, the living Word of the Father, is silent. But it is precisely in that silence that the new life begins to ferment,” Pope Leo explained, comparing it to a seed hidden in the soil or the darkness before dawn, according to Vatican News.
For many of us, silence feels uncomfortable. “We live as if life were never enough. We rush to produce, to prove ourselves, to keep up,” the Pope observed. But learning to stop is itself an act of faith, a surrender to God’s providence. As the Holy Father noted, “God is not afraid of the passing time, because He is also the God of waiting.”
This message speaks directly to modern restlessness. In a culture obsessed with productivity and instant results, the Pope reminds us that even “useless” time—pauses, emptiness, and limitations—can become the fertile ground where God plants resurrection hope. “He is the God who trusts, even when everything seems to be over,” the Pope emphasized.
In closing, the Holy Father encouraged the faithful to let go of the urge to rush through life’s difficulties. Instead, we are called to embrace stillness, to “welcome the silence” and trust that God works “in depth, in the slow time of trust.”
For Catholics, this is a reminder that the silence of Holy Saturday is not just a liturgical pause between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. It is a living invitation to surrender our own waiting, uncertainties, and struggles into God’s hands, believing that new life is already beginning, even when we cannot yet see it.
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