On Holy Saturday, the day after death, when there was the end of hope before the disciples, an aporia, an emptiness over which the absence of meaning, the unbearable suffering, the laceration of a final separation, of a mortal wound impended: where is God? This is the mute question on Holy Saturday. Where is that God who had intervened at the moment of Jesus’ baptism, opening the skies to tell him: “You are my son, in You I am well pleased” (Mark 1:11)? Where is that God who had intervened on the high mountain at the moment of the transfiguration with Moses and Elijah, who had said: “This is my son, the Beloved!” (Mark 9:7)? At the moment of the cross God did not intervene, to such a point that Jesus felt himself abandoned by God and cried to Him: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Mark 15:34). A whole day passes by and there is no God’s intervention… And yet God has not forsaken Jesus. The abandonment seems to be the bitter truth before the disciples’ eyes, but actually God has already called Jesus to Him, indeed, he has already resurrected him in his Holy Spirit and Jesus is alive in the nether world announcing salvation there as well. “He descended to the nether world,” we profess in the Credo. This is what happens in the hiding on the Holy Saturday: an empty, silent day for the disciples and for the men, but a day during which the Father — who “is always working” (see John 5:17), as Jesus said — brings salvation to the nether world by means of Jesus. Just as Jonah was in the belly of a fish for three days and three nights (see Matthew 12:40), Jesus was taken down from the cross and laid in the grave, and from there he descended again to the nether world, to the Sheol where the dead dwell.