Holy Saturday is a docility post-trauma experience
Holy Saturday is the most appropriate day to talk about what I call the post-trauma docility syndrome. This expression refers to the tendency we all have to withdraw into ourselves, become docile, submissive and even inactive, out of fear and as an attempt to avoid further suffering. “I’m staying at home; stay at home”, the chorus we have taken up in relation to the coronavirus scenario, depicts this human attitude we all have in a crisis situation but above else, it is also a coded message of what could happen even after the trauma or danger of coronavirus (in this case), is over. Holy Saturday is a docility post-trauma experience for Christians. Any Christian who has a little knowledge of Secrad Scriptures knows what I am talking about. After Jesus is arrested in the Garden of Getsemani and later killed, all his disciples and apostles escape and seek hiding places. Judas' hiding place is suicide when he realises that the events he thought he had planned so well get out of