Sealed in Stone

Holy Saturday is the quietest day in the Christian calendar. The crowds have gone. The disciples are hidden behind locked doors. The shouting, the trial, the agony, the death — all of it is over. And in a garden outside the walls of Jerusalem, a great stone has been rolled across the entrance to a tomb, and sealed.

We tend to rush past that sealed stone on our way to Easter Sunday. But it is worth pausing here, in the silence, and asking what that sealed tomb actually means — and why it matters so much for everything that comes next.