He celebrates the Resurrection of Saint Lazarus today, 24 April, our Church.
Lazarus was a friend of Christ and his sisters Martha and Mary hosted him many times (Gutter, 38-40, Ιωαν.ιβ΄, 1-3) in Bethany near Jerusalem. A few days before the passion of the Lord Lazarus fell ill and his sisters informed Jesus, who was then in Galilee, to visit him.………..
But the Lord deliberately delayed until Lazarus died, so he told his students let's go wake him up now. When he arrived in Bethany, he comforted the sisters of Lazarus, who had been dead for four days, and asked to see his tomb..
When he arrived at the monument, he cried and ordered the tombstone to be removed. Then he raised his eyes to heaven, he thanked God and the Father and said in a loud voice: Lazarus, get out. Immediately the four-day-old dead man came out wrapped in the shrouds in front of the crowd that was watching, and Jesus asked that his shrouds be untied and that he go home.. (John. ια΄,44)
Ancient tradition says that Lazarus was then 30 years old and lived other 30 years. He ended his earthly life in Cyprus in the year 63 A.D. and his tomb in the city of Kitia wrote: "Lazarus the four-day-old and friend of Christ".
The year 890 AD. his holy relic was moved to Constantinople by the emperor Leo the Wise, who composed the idioms in the evening of Lazarus: Sir, Lazarus wants a tomb idea, etc.
Tradition says that a characteristic of Lazarus' later life, was that he never laughed except once when he saw someone stealing a flower pot and said the following phrase: One soil steals the other.
The Resurrection of Lazarus intensified the hatred of the Jews who, as soon as they learned of it, asked to kill Lazarus and Christ.
On this day there are no memorials with kolyva, in need only simple Trisagio.
Celebration: Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, Achilles Doukas, Duchess, Duchess Valentine, Valentina, Dina Elizabeth, Eliza, Lisa, Zeta, Zetta, Elli, Beta, Elizabeth Wonderful, Admired Lazarus, Lazos.
Ἀπολυτίκιον
Wanting Christ and our God to show, before Your crucifixion, that the resurrection of all the dead is certain, you raised Lazarus from the dead. That's why we too, imitating the children who welcomed you at Your entrance into Jerusalem, we hold in our hands the symbols of victory, the poor and we roar towards You, the winner of death: Help us and save us, As God you dwell in the highest parts of heaven, may you be blessed Sy, that you come sent by the Lord!
Ετερον Ἀπολυτίκιον
Sound a '.
Τὴν κοινὴν Ἀνάστασιν πρὸ τοῦ σοῦ πάθους πιστούμενος, ἐκ νεκρῶν ἤγειρας τὸν Λάζαρον Χριστὲ ὁ Θεός · ὅθεν καὶ ἡμεῖς ὡς οἱ παῖδες, τὰ τῆς νίκης σύμβολα φέροντες, σοὶ τῷ νικητῇ τοῦ θανάτου βοῶμεν · Ὠσαννὰ ἐν τοῖς ὑψίστοις, εὐλογημένος ὁ ἐρχόμενος, ἐν ὀνόματι Κυρίου.
Κοντάκιον
Sound b '. Τὰ ἄνω ζητῶν.
Or at least joy, Χριστὸς ἡ ἀλήθεια, τὸ φῶς ἡ ζωή, τοῦ κόσμου ἡ ἀνάστασις, τοῖς ἐν γῇ πεφανέρωται, τῇ αὐτοῦ ἀγαθότητι, καὶ γέγονε τύπος τῆς Ἀναστάσεως, τοῖς πᾶσι παρέχων θείαν ἄφεσιν.
Μεγαλυνάριον
Ἤγειρας Σωτήρ μου ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν, Λάζαρον σὸν φίλον, τετραήμερον ὡς Θεός · ὅθεν Ἰουδαίων, ἐξέστησαν οἱ δῆμοι, of your glory my Savior, τὸ μεγαλούργημα.
The House
Τοῖς Μαθηταῖς ὁ Κτίστης τῶν ὅλων, پیشγόρευσε λέγων · Ἀδελφοὶ καὶ γνωστοί, ἡμῶν ὁ φίλος κεκοίμηται, τούτοις προλέγων καὶ ἐκδιδάσκων, ὅτι πάντα γινώσκεις ὡς Κτίστης πάντων · ἄγωμεν οὖν πορευθῶμεν, καὶ ἴδωμεν ξένην ταφήν, καὶ θρῆνον τὸν τῆς Μαρίας, καὶ τὸν τάφον Λαζάρου ὀψώμεθα · ἐκεῖ γὰρ μέλλω θαυματουργεῖν, ἐκτελῶν τοῦ Σταυροῦ τὰ προοίμια, καὶ πᾶσι παρέχων θείαν ἄφεσιν.