Something strange is happening, there is a great stillness on earth today, a great silence and stillness.
So states an ancient sermon regarding Christ’s descent into the netherworld.
The earth trembled and is now still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear.
The sermon tells us that Christ has gone to look for our first parents and for those who live in the shadow of darkness and death:
He has gone to free the captives Adam and Eve, he who is both God and the son of Eve. The Lord approached them bearing the cross, the weapon that had won him the victory. At the sight of him Adam, the first man he had created, struck his breast with terror and cried out to everyone: “My Lord be with you all.” Christ answered him: “And with your spirit.”
