The Death of Lazarus - Now a certain man was ill, Laz′arus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who anointed the Lord
The Death of Lazarus - A man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. This was the same Mary who massaged the Lord’s
Beginning with reference to Nikos Kazantzakis's account of the death of Lazarus in The Last Temptation, and proceeding to Fyodor Dostoevsky's famous description in The Idiot of Hans Holbein the Younger's The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521), I endeavor to articulate a constructive...
Jesus has compassion for each one of us and calls us by name. “Lazarus, come forth!” Can you imagine what that was like? Not only to be Lazarus but to witness such a stunning event by the One who is sovereignoverdeath? It has been stated that if Jesus had not called Lazarus by ...
March, when I went up to his lodgings to see whether it was true that one of his children had been starved and frozen to death, I began to hold forth to him about his poverty being his own fault, and, in the course of my remarks, I accidentally smiled at the corpse of his...
of worms, death and thin bones, keeper of the Lazarus resurrection and the sun seeps into my parted lips as does the soil. I close my eyes sinking, unable to hold air or hearing. Honoured to offer it my flesh and my singing bowl, I am covered in this stream...
“life after death” and “the existence of God” makes us nervous. Maybe someday in eternity, we’ll look back on our earthly lives and laugh at how little we knew back then, but today we can only know what we know, which might give us a little sympathy for those unborn twins and...
With his real name revealed as Michael Karl Popper, the Kid starts having dreams about his death and seeks answers from Neo. The Kid's belief in the illusion of reality allows him to escape the Matrix, making him one of the strongest minds in the saga.The character known as the Kid in...
Mr. José Maria Borromeo y Galan was known to his friends and family by the name of “Señor Iyo Pepe.” The news of his death immediately spread throughout the entire city last Sunday. Within a few hours of his passing, countless friends and relatives converged upon the Borromeo home ...
And how exactly did his suffering and death make us whole? There has never been a conclusive single answer, because any attempt to “solve” the Paschal Mystery with a reductive formula is missing the point. The cross is an experience to enter, not an idea to be explained. “I wonder as...