This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation, and the Rosary.

Welcome to Holy Saturday as we are in the third day of our Holy Tridun entering into Easter Vigil this evening.

I'm here with Alex Kupfer and a wonderful group of five families, four families, five, four or five families.

And they all have little children and my kids are all grown now so I feel very old but I'm

filled with joy for being here. Let's call to mind that we're ever in the presence of Almighty God

in whom we live and move and have our being. We call upon him in the name of the father and of the

Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Title for our rosary today is Holy Saturday. We say in the creed that on

this day, Holy Saturday, Jesus descended into hell. Hell is a false translation of the Hebrew word

Shaol and the Greek word Hades, which both meant the state after death. The catechism

tells us in Article 633, Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, but to free the

just, who had died before him and to take them into heaven. To appreciate what Jesus did in Holy Saturday

by going to all the people who died before Holy Saturday, all the innumerable people who

dwells in death, we need to understand what death was like before Jesus and what it would

be like without Jesus.

We understand death as Christians.

Now that death has opened heaven to us,

we view death as being welcomed into heaven

by our relatives and friends who went before us,

welcomed by our guardian angel, welcomed by Mary,

and by God into heavenly joy. But before Holy Saturday,

well, that was very different. When you died, you were just alone, totally and completely alone.

No friends, no relatives, and separated from God. Just alone. And to me, that is the most

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