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Holy Saturday – the Harrowing of Hell

30 Saturday Mar 2013

Posted by Heidi the Table Reader in catholic church, theology & ethics

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An excerpt of today’s reading from the Office of Readings for Holy Saturday in the Catholic Liturgy of the Hours – from an ancient homily for this day:

I am your God, who for your sake have become your son. Out of love for you and for your descendants I now by my own authority command all who are held in bondage to come forth, all who are in darkness to be enlightened, all who are sleeping to arise. I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be held a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead. Rise up, work of my hands, you who were created in my image. Rise, let us leave this place, for you are in me and I am in you; together we form only one person and we cannot be separated. For your sake I, your God, became your son; I, the Lord, took the form of a slave; I, whose home is above the heavens, descended to the earth and beneath the earth. For your sake, for the sake of man, I became like a man without help, free among the dead.

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