Holy Week

-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…