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Today is Holy Saturday. The Soul of Our Lord Jesus Christ has descended into hell, separated for a brief time from His Body, though both remain united to the Second Person of the Trinity. It is a time of mourning and yet also of great hope, for Our Lord is harrowing hell, bringing joy to the souls of the just that died under the Old Covenant; the saints that have waited in limbo for the promised Messiah, including His holy ancestors; from our first parents, Adam & Eve, to Ss. Joseph and John the Baptist, the last Patriarch and the last Prophet.
From The Liturgical Year, by Dom Prosper Gueranger:
Now, at last, we understand what sin has done: By sin, death entered into the world; and it passed upon all men. Though Jesus knew no sin, yet has He permitted Death to have dominion over Him, in order that He might make it less bitter to us, and, by His Resurrection, restore unto us that eternal life, of which we had been deprived by sin. How gratefully we should appreciate this Death of our Jesus! …The sight of this Tomb, wherein His Body lies lifeless and cold, teaches us something far more important than the power of death: it reveals to us the immense, the incomprehensible love of God for man.… Let us, then, love this sacred Sepulcher, which is to give us Life.