Welcome back to the Word on Fire show.

I'm your host, Matthew Petrusig.

We are continuing our walk through Bishop Barron's lecture series

on one of the most important Catholic theologians

of the 20th century, Hans Ores von Balthasar. Enjoy. We've been looking at the

Hearlishkite, the glory of the Lord, and as a theodramatique, the theodrama. So being entranced by the

form of Christ and then being drawn into the acting area opened up by divine and human freedom.

Now, in some ways, all this comes together in the book that I mentioned in the very first lecture.

Remember when I got that book at the procure bookstore in Paris and brought it down to the

to the Sen and looking at Notre Dame, read it? Well, that was the Mysterium Pascale, the Pascolle, the Pascolle.

Baltazar's reflection on the three days, meaning holy Thursday, good Friday, holy Saturday.

Because in many ways, that's where it all happens. That's the form he's talking about. That's the

glory, the beauty of the Lord.

It's also where divine and human freedom come together in a most compelling way.

So everything we've been saying in some ways now is moving toward this meditation.

Think too of the influence of Adrian von Schuyer.

So in her mystical experience, she often at Easter time would go into these intense experiences of entering into the dying and rising of Jesus, but especially into what she called

the being dead of the Son of God, the death of Jesus and his burial. This had a lot to do with

Baltazar's reflections on the third day. The one that's most often overlooked, he said,

in our meditations on Holy Week. There's a lot about Holy Thursday, a lot on Good Friday,

of course, a lot on Easter Sunday. but that third day of Holy Saturday is often

the most overlooked.

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