The Resurrection. This will no doubt be the shortest entry for a while, as it’s really pretty straightforward. When Christ was taken down from the Cross, He was anointed in oils, covered in sweet spices, wrapped for burial, and laid in a new tomb provided by St. Joseph of Arimathea - you can catch a glimpse of the priest’s reenactment of this just after the Great Entrance in each Divine Liturgy. During His three days entombed Christ descended into Hades where he broke down the gates (He’d depicted stepping on them in the Paschal icon), and released its prisoners into Paradise. So the Resurrection then is when Christ rose from the dead and broke the bonds of Hades/ death. We say in the Creed that “we look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come,” and indeed we do!
