![]() At this point what dominates is the miracle of love which triumphs over death, a promise which announces Christ’s war with death, a promise that death itself will be destroyed and made to disappear. Then came the command ‘Lazarus, come out’. He saw how death, which was not created by God, had seized his throne and now reigned over the whole world. Jesus wept because, on seeing the death of his friend, he also beheld the victory of death over the whole world. The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face’. Once this had been done ‘Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”. He ordered the stone covering the tomb to be removed. When Jesus saw the sisters and their friends sobbing, ‘he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled’. When Jesus learned of this, he said: ‘This illness hasn’t happened to bring death but to be the reason for the manifestation of the glory of the Son of God’. His sisters sent a message to the Lord, telling him his beloved friend was sick. Lazarus lived in Bethany with his sisters, Martha and Mary. Today we see the raising of Lazarus, a miracle performed by the Lord before he entered the city of Jerusalem. These are Lazarus Saturday, on which we commemorate the raising of Christ’s bosom friend, Lazarus the other is Palm Sunday, when we celebrate Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem six days before he was betrayed and suffered death on the Cross. Great Lent has been completed and ends with two splendid festal days. Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian ![]()
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