Great Lent is drawing to a close, and we stand on the threshold of the Passion days. At the beginning of the fast, when we spoke of its meaning and purpose, we reflected that it should be a time for us to limit ourselves in all that stirs us toward sin, so that we might…
-Venerable Isichiy (Hesychius) of Jerusalem I love this place of the Church, which gathers here for me this spiritual banquet; for the banquet of the Church of God is this very assembly, made drunk with the Mystical Cup, nourished by the Life-giving Lamb. Since the King of Angels made His dwelling upon the earth, feasts…
-Ven. Isichiy (Hesychios) of Jerusalem. Behold, once again Lazarus offers us today a splendid banquet—a feast where everything is wondrous, rich in color and radiant, everything truly bears a divine generosity and a certain royal majesty. For it is the Father who lays the table, the Son who pours the wine, the Spirit who anoints…
On the eve of the celebration of the Lord Jesus Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem, the Church commemorates the resurrection of Lazarus, since this miracle, according to the Gospel of John, took place just before the Lord entered the Holy City. The Evangelist tells us little about Lazarus: that the Lord loved him, calling him “our…