Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear.Alas, my Holy Saturday is very noisy indeed.
He has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow 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 in terror and cried out to everyone: “My Lord be with you all.” Christ answered him: “And with your spirit.” He took him by the hand and raised him up, saying: “Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”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.
But it is better to have family than not to have family.
It is better to engage that to be isolated.
It is better to remember than to be alone.
It is better to have too much to do than nothing.
Also in honor of Him who is the life of the dead, I am still going to hold off commenting on a certain interview with a certain atheist in which a certain bishop seems to deny the existence of Hell - not the usual oh, sure there's a hell, but nobody's in it line, but a newish heresy-adjacent theology.
Well, I suppose that it is fitting that Satan be lonely.
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