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Today is #holysaturday. Unfortunately, the meaning of this day has gotten lost in much of contemporary #christianity.

Today isn’t a remembrance about Jesus passively waiting in the tomb for the resurrection. In fact our Lord was at work on Holy Saturday! As the Apostle’s Creed says: “he descended to hell.” This is known as the harrowing of hell, the day when Jesus descended to hell to proclaim his victory over death and hell, and to liberate the righteous souls who had been waiting there.

The teaching comes directly from Scripture, 1 Peter 3:18-20, which tells us that “Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit; in which he went and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.”

So today is about remembering the full extent of Jesus’ redemptive work. Today we remember that the power of hell has been definitively destroyed! What a precious mystery we remember this day!