Friday of the Sixth Week

"We have completed the forty days that profit our souls. Let us sing: “Rejoice, city of Bethany, home of Lazarus! Rejoice, Mary and Martha, his sisters! Tomorrow Christ will come and raise your dead brother to life. Bitter and unsatisfied, hell will hearHis voice. Shaking and groaning, it will release bound Lazarus. The assembly of Hebrews will be amazed. They will greet Him with palms and branches. Though their priests and elders look on Him with envy and malice, the children shall praiseHim in song: ‘Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!’” They will greet Him with palms and branches. Though their priests and elders look on Him with envy and malice,

the children shall praiseHim in song: ‘Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!’”