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Day 90: Christ Descended into Hell

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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The One Morning Star Who Never Sets Christ

In his Passover it was precisely out of the depths of death that he made life spring forth as we pray at the Easter vigil in the Roman Missile. Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just to what had gone before him. The descent into hell brings the gospel message of salvation to complete fulfillment. This is the last phase of Jesus' messianic mission; all who are saved have been made sharers in the redemption.

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