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  • Let's Get Out Of This Place [The Harrowing of Hell]- Glory to God for All Things

    04/23/2019 1:44:29 PM PDT · by Mrs. Don-o · 175 replies
    blogs.ancientfaith.com ^ | April 22, 2019 · | Fr. Stephen Freeman
    The Saturday before Palm Sunday is known as Lazarus Saturday among the Orthodox, and they celebrate Christ raising him from the dead just prior to His entrance into Jerusalem (gospel of John). It is a feast that offers something of a preview of Christ’s resurrection, and a foretaste of the General Resurrection at the End of the Age. Some years back I sat in a cave that is purported to be the grave of Lazarus. I could not help but think of him – but of him in Hades rather than the tomb. It is said in the Fathers...