With sin man became mortal and finite, with the resurrection of God he becomes immortal and eternal
“I am silenced by sarx threatening …”, a day of silence, as the Cherubic hymn of the day points out. Day dedicated to the burial and descent of Christ In Hades. The last day of the Great Week and the Great Lent.
Christ, His Holy Body, is in the grave, not to surrender to the obscurity and the deterioration of death, but to crush (with His not dying soul) the power of Hades and death and to redeem those held there. We expect the Resurrection in faith and hope.
People condemned the Lord to death, but with his resurrection, he condemned people to immortality.
With sin, man became mortal and finite, with the resurrection of God he becomes immortal and eternal.
It is the only Saturday of the year in which the oil is fasting, so it is called a salted Saturday.
In the morning, the evening of the Easter feast with the Divine Liturgy, the first resurrection, as it is said, is chanted by “God’s rise, lilies the earth, that the destruction of all the nations”. The priest scatters laurels – victory symbols – in the temple. Waiting for the Resurrection is now intense. We are preparing our candles for the evening, when midnight will chant “Christ Risen”, and then the Orthodox and Resurrected Divine Liturgy on Easter will be celebrated, told RES EIA.
Saint Gregory the Theologian encompasses the high and profound meaning of the death of the whole of the world thanks to the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ with his sacred hymn “yesterday to you, Christ, I am present at you;
Yesterday, that is, on Good Friday night, I was in the grave with you, my Christ. But today, on the brilliant day of your resurrection, I am upset with you. You, my Savior, glorify me with you and in your eternal heavenly kingdom.
