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Catholic Catechism (631)
Article 5 “He Descended Into Hell. On The Third Day He Rose Again”
631 Jesus “descended into the lower parts of the earth. He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens.”475 The Apostles’ Creed confesses in the same article Christ’s descent into hell and his Resurrection from the dead on the third day, because in his Passover it was precisely out of the depths of death that he made life spring forth:
[T]he one Morning Star who never sets, \ Christ your Son, who, coming bsack from death's domain, \ has shed his peacful light on humanity, \ and lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.476
475. Eph 4:9-10.
476. Roman Missal, Easter Vigil 19, Exsultet.