THE RESURRECTION
'He has regenerated us through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead' (1 Pt 1,3)
(From the Bible the work reference tracks produced by Mosaic School of Friuli and, in short, the comment / explanation of Paolo Orlando author of the artworks. Photo: Ulderica Da Pozzo)
Phil 2,6-11
Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not consider it a privilege to be like God,
but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness.
And found human, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even to death on a cross.
Therefore God exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue: Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father!.
Holding the wood of the cross, Christ descends to the underworld as a victorious leader, wrapped in light. Behind its white figure, in fact, we can see through the sphere of the sky, as a contact between the kingdom of light and the kingdom of death was established.
With the death and resurrection of the Lord a new channel is opened up, inaccessible to the abode of God. At his feet the marks of the "stupendous combat" between life and death: the gates of hell torn, the latches, the sin of broken chains, the open graves.
Death, then, is no longer inevitable; man can escape his natural destiny, can escape the black hole that opens its jaws beneath him; the Enemy, "that swallows everything and everyone" was forced to return his prisoners. Indeed, without waiting for Adam's tent his hands, Jesus grabs him by the wrist, pulling him.
In addition to Adam and Eve, ancient ancestors and representatives of all human beings, we recognize John the Baptist (forerunner of Jesus even to the underworld), King David and Solomon, who in several biblical texts have been able to express the hope of the resurrection.