An Ancient Homily for Holy Saturday

Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and
stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is
still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since
the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear.

He has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those
who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow the captives
Adam and Eve, he who is both God and the son of Eve. The Lord approached them bearing the
cross, the weapon that had won him the victory. At the sight of him Adam, the first man he had
created, struck his breast in terror and cried out to everyone: “My Lord be with you all.” Christ
answered him: “And with your spirit.” He took him by the hand and raised him up, saying:
“Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”

I am your God, who for your sake have become your son. Out of love for you and for your
descendants I now by my own authority command all who are held in bondage to come forth, all
who are in darkness to be enlightened, all who are sleeping to arise. I order you, O sleeper, to
awake. I did not create you to be held a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of
the dead. Rise up, work of my hands, you who were created in my image. Rise, let us leave this
place, for you are in me and I am in you; together we form only one person and we cannot be
separated. For your sake I, your God, became your son; I, the Lord, took the form of a slave; I,
whose home is above the heavens, descended to the earth and beneath the earth. For your sake,
for the sake of man, I became like a man without help, free among the dead. For the sake of you,
who left a garden, I was betrayed to the Jews in a garden, and I was crucified in a garden.

See on my face the spittle I received in order to restore to you the life I once breathed into
you. See there the marks of the blows I received in order to refashion your warped nature in my
image. On my back see the marks of the scourging I endured to remove the burden of sin that
weighs upon your back. See my hands, nailed firmly to a tree, for you who once wickedly
stretched out your hand to a tree.

I slept on the cross and a sword pierced my side for you who slept in paradise and brought
forth Eve from your side. My side has healed the pain in yours. My sleep will rouse you from
your sleep in hell. The sword that pierced me has sheathed the sword that was turned against
you.

Rise

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, let us leave this place. The enemy led you out of the earthly paradise. I will not restore
you to that paradise, but I will enthrone you in heaven. I forbade you the tree that was only a
symbol of life, but see, I who am life itself am now one with you. I appointed cherubim to guard
you as slaves are guarded, but now I make them worship you as God. The throne formed by
cherubim awaits you, its bearers swift and eager. The bridal chamber is adorned, the banquet is
ready, the eternal dwelling places are prepared, the treasure houses of all good things lie open.

The kingdom of heaven has been prepared for you from all eternity.