Welcome back to The Exorcist Files, the show where we grow in prayer and sometimes share a scare.

I'm your co-host, Ryan Bethay. Today, Father Martins will be offering one of his signature reflections.

Now, I'm not talking about the man in the mirror. No, today, Father Martens is going to be speaking on something that we actually wanted to put out much earlier, but as fate in schedules would have it, it was just not in the cards. Now, we are getting lots of emails,

comments, questions, maybe even a couple threats. Ryan, when are the next case files coming out?

We hear you. We are hard at work on a batch of new ones. We do hope to have this batch very,

very soon. Please remember,

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Hello, friends. We're in the Easter season. The feedback for our Lenton retreat was so positive that I thought I would do an Easter one as well. During Lent, we walked with Christ in his suffering. Now, in Easter, the church invites us to enter into the mystery of his victory. But there is a moment we often pass over too quickly, the time between his death and his

resurrection. Lent brought us to the cross. Easter proclaims the resurrection, but between those two

moments lies a profound and often forgotten

mystery. What happened to Christ after he died and before he rose? In this meditation, we enter into

that hidden moment, his descent into hell. The ancient Jews understood hell to encompass two realms,

the Hell of the Damned, which the Jews called Gahanna,

literally the garbage dump, and Shoal,

the shadowy realm of those who died in holiness,

but who were imprisoned until a redeemer could free them.

Both are prisons, but those in shawl were awaiting redemption from the Christ.

The Psalms speak of this place with haunting clarity,

for in death there is no remembrance of you.

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