{"id":26924,"date":"2012-03-31T07:11:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T11:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/03\/lazarus-saturday\/"},"modified":"2012-03-31T07:11:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T11:11:52","slug":"lazarus-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/03\/lazarus-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazarus Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<o:documentproperties>\n<o:template>Normal<\/o:template>\n<o:revision>0<\/o:revision>\n<o:totaltime>0<\/o:totaltime>\n<o:pages>1<\/o:pages>\n<o:words>43<\/o:words>\n<o:characters>250<\/o:characters>\n<o:company>Liturgy Traing Publ.<\/o:company>\n<o:lines>2<\/o:lines>\n<o:paragraphs>1<\/o:paragraphs>\n<o:characterswithspaces>307<\/o:characterswithspaces>\n<o:version>10.260<\/o:version>\n<\/o:documentproperties>\n<\/xml>< ![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:worddocument>\n<w:zoom>0<\/w:zoom>\n<w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0<\/w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>\n<w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0<\/w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>\n<w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin><\/w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin>\n<\/w:worddocument>\n<\/xml>< ![endif]--><br \/>\n<!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Raising%20of%20Lazarus%20Duccio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Raising of Lazarus Duccio.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/03\/Raising of Lazarus Duccio-thumb-300x283-11376.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>Before Your own death, O Christ, You raised from death<br \/>\nLazarus, who was four days dead, and You have shaken the dominion of death. Through<br \/>\nthe one man whom You loved, You have foretold the deliverance of all from<br \/>\ncorruption. We therefore worship You and cry: Blessed are You, O Savior!&nbsp;<br \/>\nHave mercy on us!<\/i><\/span><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"'Times New Roman'\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; \">The observance of Lazarus Saturday is really more a Byzantine Church observance on the Saturday before Palm Sunday, but you will find it in the West, too. As the antiphon above notes, Jesus shows us what is come for us who believe in Him: triumph over death by death itself. As Jesus approaches His own death on the Cross, and then the Resurrection, we who believe in the Lord encounter the same fact.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Your own death, O Christ, You raised from death Lazarus, who was four days dead, and You have shaken the dominion of death. Through the one man whom You loved, You have foretold the deliverance of all from corruption. We therefore worship You and cry: Blessed are You, O Savior!&nbsp; Have mercy on us! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/03\/lazarus-saturday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lazarus Saturday<\/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":[2450,2738,1953],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26924"}],"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=26924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}