{"id":23654,"date":"2014-03-26T10:26:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T14:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/getting_a_glimpse_of_pascha_la\/"},"modified":"2013-07-27T00:40:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T04:40:58","slug":"getting-a-glimpse-of-pascha-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/getting-a-glimpse-of-pascha-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting a glimpse of Pascha: Lazarus being untied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/untieing%20of%20Lazarus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" alt=\"untieing of Lazarus.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/04\/untieing of Lazarus-thumb-300x297-14283.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #323333;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">Walking through Lent the Church gives us key glimpses, that is, tastes through the liturgical narrative leading to Pascha (Easter).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #323333;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #323333;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">The icon shows Lazarus being untied of his burial shroud. In fact, this metaphor of being untied is key: the crucified and risen Lord unties us of our sin to live in freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #323333;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #323333;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">A hymn at Lenten Vespers is revealing:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #323333; min-height: 15px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #323333;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">&#8220;O Lord, while dwelling in the flesh on the other side of Jordan, Thou hast foretold that the sickness of Lazarus would not end in death, but that it had come to pass for Thy glory, O our God. Glory to Thy mighty acts and Thine all-sovereign power, for Thou hast destroyed death in Thy great mercy and Thy love for mankind.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking through Lent the Church gives us key glimpses, that is, tastes through the liturgical narrative leading to Pascha (Easter). \u00a0 The icon shows Lazarus being untied of his burial shroud. In fact, this metaphor of being untied is key: the crucified and risen Lord unties us of our sin to live in freedom. \u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/getting-a-glimpse-of-pascha-la\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting a glimpse of Pascha: Lazarus being untied<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[2030,1953,3180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27849,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23654\/revisions\/27849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}