Noon on Holy Saturday

                            From an ancient homily on the holy and great Sabbath 

Christ has gone in search of our first parent, as for a lost sheep...  He took him by the hand and raised him saying, “Awake 

O sleeper, and rise from the dead, Arise....  
I did not create you to be held a prisoner in hell...  Rise up, let us 
leave this place... The kingdom of 
heaven has been prepared for you from all eternity.