Dear ,

 

Most of our Easter education gives little attention to Holy Saturday and the Descent into Hell.  Probably the Church fathers chose to neglect the harrowing of hell because it indicated the Christ forgave all sins and released souls from the eternal fires of hell.  Where is the supremacy of the Church, of the priesthood, if the Christ forgives all sins, not the Church and it's priests in whatever hierarchical power?

 

Where is your relationship to your inner redemption if it is freed from the punishment of the eternal threat of brimstone?  What if freedom is not a magic wand, a fairy godmother's beneficent gesture , but dependent, actually exalted, by a conscious descent into the darkest, fiercest, most excruciating self-examination and compassionate self-judgment you are capable of?  Yes, it is frightening and truly, a personal threshold but the result is a possibility of Inner Resurrection.

 

Please click to the Inner Year blog at www.theinneryear.blogspot.com to listen to some thoughts on the inner personal meaning of Holy Saturday.   How do you descend into Hell? and for what inner purpose?  Is there inner resurrection without inner redemption? 

 

Go here: http://www.theinneryear.blogspot.com.

 

Easter blessings,

Lynn