Holy Saturday is the day between Good Friday and Easter Day. It is a continuation of the sorrow of Good Friday, when Christians of all traditions remember the disciples’ hopelessness in the wake of Jesus’s death on the cross; when they are unsure whether to believe that he will rise from the dead, as he said he would. However, Holy Saturday also looks forward to the knowledge of the resurrection of Jesus on Easter Day. Hallelujah!

This Easter Vigil, held often after sunset on Holy Saturday, includes the lighting of candles representing the light of Christ. In many churches congregations gather around a fire outside a darkened church, from which the Easter (Paschal) candle is lit and brought inside. This depiction of new life and light represents Jesus’s resurrection on the first Easter morning. Parishioners then light their own candles from this main candle to symbolise their own coming into new life as followers of Jesus.
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