Vesperal Liturgy 2020 April 18
Channel: St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church
Date: 2020-04-18

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Holy Saturday: Jesus was in Hades
Vespers On Great Saturday, the service recalls the many times when God either redeemed (saved) his people, or spoke through the prophets of the new life he would give them because he had forgiven their sins due to his great love of them.Since the time of the Fall from Paradise, God has worked to form a people, speak to them, and bring them from bondage, saveor rescue them. Some of the readings are the Exodus story, Jonah in the whale, and the “dry bones” prophecy of Ezechiel. Christ brings definitive redemption from the ultimate bondage of sinand death, when he descends into Hades,the place of the dead, bursts the bonds of Hades, and rises from the dead. Death has no hold on us anymore. "He gave Himself as a ransom to death in which we were held captive, sold under sin. Descending into Hades through the cross, He loosed the bonds of death."