Wednesday, March 28, 2018

"O woe, truly I am being destroyed!", cries out Hades..."

Christ raising Lazarus from the dead (source)
  
"O woe, truly I am being destroyed!", cries out Hades, which speaks to Death saying: "Behold, the Nazarene makes the things below tremble, and rents apart my belly, raising the speechless dead man with His voice."
-from the Compline Canon of St. Andrew of Crete for the Saturday of Lazarus
  
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Through the prayers of our Holy Fathers, Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us and save us! Amen!

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