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As kids in Sunday School we learned that the shortest verse in the Bible comes from this narrative in John’s Gospel: “Jesus wept.” That was it — a factoid to be learned for Bible quizzes. Yet this remarkable story — the bringing back to life of Jesus’ close friend Lazarus after a... Read More →

O God, Creator of heaven and earth: Grant that, as the crucified body of your dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with him the coming of the third day, and rise with him to newness of life, who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy... Read More →

We have spoken above … (about) the cause of his bodily manifestation, that it was not for another to turn what was corruptible to incorruptibility except the Savior himself, who in the beginning created the universe from nothing; and that it was not for another to recreate again... Read More →

For this one who was led away as a lamb, and who was sacrificed as a sheep. By himself delivered us from servitude to the world, as from the land of Egypt, and released us from bondage to the devil as from the hand of Pharaoh, and sealed our souls by his own spirit and the... Read More →