Only one candle remains. It is the Candle of Prophecy, and it is not extinguished; it symbolizes the promises that Christ will not stay dead, but that he will rise. But to those of us furtively stumbling with mincing steps towards the doors of the church, it is not much light to work with. Just as to those who stood on Golgotha, in dense darkness, watching a wailing mother holding her son’s lifeless body, those ancient promises must have seemed very faint indeed. But this candle will burn, in an empty, dark church, for three days.62
