Abbot Ankido Sipo continues his lecture series on the Creed by moving from the Incarnation to the Paschal Mystery—Christ’s passion, death, burial, resurrection, and the Apostles’ Creed line “He descended into hell.” He argues sin is more than breaking a rule: it fractures communion, producing fear of God, shame, blame, and alienation, as seen in Adam and Eve. Salvation reverses this through Jesus as the new Adam, whose voluntary death is an act of love that restores relationship with God and others. He explains the Bible’s developing view of the afterlife, describing Sheol/Hades as the realm of the dead and using Jonah’s prayer “from the belly of Sheol” as a sign of life as communication with God. Citing the Catechism, he presents Christ’s descent as preaching to the dead, defeating death, and opening communion through the Eucharist.

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