This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our Rosary Meditation.

Today is Holy Saturday, and we meditate on what Jesus did during Holy Saturday.

That might surprise you because you think he was in the tomb.

Physically he was, but he was up to more than that.

And in our fifth decade, we will also pray day two of our divine mercy novena. So let's begin

in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. It's called to mind all those

we've promised to pray for. We say in the creed the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. It's called to mind all those who promised to pray for.

We say in the creed that on this day, Holy Saturday, Jesus descended into hell.

The catechism in paragraph 633 tells us Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation,

but to free the just who had died before him and take them into heaven.

In 1 Peter chapter 3, verse 18, Peter writes, why? Christ himself, innocent, though he was, had died once for sins, died for the guilty, to lead us to God. In the body, he was put to death. In the spirit, he was raised to life. And in the spirit spirit he went to preach to the spirits in prison.

This meditation on Holy Saturday, the day in which Jesus went to those spirits in prison,

the day that Jesus descended to the realm of the dead, this meditation is from Cardinal

Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict

the 16th, and it's from his book, Introduction to Christianity. Ratzinger writes,

In his last prayer from the cross, Jesus cries out, my God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

What appears as the innermost heart of his passion is not any physical pain, but radical loneliness, complete abandonment.

But in the last analysis, what comes to light here is simply the abyss of loneliness

of man in general, of man who is alone in his innermost being.

This loneliness is in contradiction with the nature of man who cannot exist alone.

He needs company.

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