Dear Friends,
Easter is the time to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and ours because He wanted to form with Him only one body: the Church.
We proclaim in the Creed:
“He descended into hell" we intend to say that Christ "tried out" death, truly experiencing it.
It isn't easy today to understand this article of faith. The truth of faith has been formulated to us in concepts from an imagery that is foreign to us. Hence, wouldn't it be better to give it up?
I would say, “No,” because the Church, since the earliest times, has kept this confession firm. Instead, this sentence should be for us a stimulus to make an effort to understand, precisely when the question seems difficult and obscure.
In death, Jesus puts himself in solidarity with the dead, he goes as triumphant to the underworld, to call out all those whom death still has imprisoned.
“Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
(Eph. 5,15/ )
