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Lazarus Saturday in the Eastern Orthodox Church〔and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite〕 is the day before Palm Sunday to which it is liturgically linked. It celebrates the raising of Lazarus of Bethany, the narrative of which is found in the Gospel of John (). ==Liturgical aspects== Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday together hold a unique position in the church year, as days of joy and triumph interposed between the penitence of Great Lent and the mourning of Holy Week.〔Archimandrite Kallistos Ware and Mother Mary, Tr., ''The Lenten Triodion'' (St. Tikhon's Seminary Press, South Canaan, PA, 2002, ISBN 1-878997-51-3), p. 57.〕 During the preceding week the propers in the Lenten Triodion track the sickness and then the death of Lazarus, and Christ's journey from beyond Jordan to Bethany. This week is referred to as the "Week of Palms" or the "Flowery Week."〔Sergei Bulgakov, ''Nastolnaya Kniga Dlya Svyaschenno-Tserkovno-Sluzhitelei'' (Handbook for Church Servers), 2nd edition (Kharkov, Ukraine, 1900), Tr. Fr. Eugene Tarris. (The Sixth Week of Great Lent ). Accessed 2007-04-02.〕 The position of Lazarus Saturday is summed up in the first sticheron chanted at vespers on Friday:〔The Orthodox Church follows the Jewish tradition of beginning the day at sunset; thus, Lazarus Saturday begins at Friday vespers.〕
During Friday vespers the reading of Genesis (which began on the first day of Great Lent) is concluded with the description of the death, burial and mourning of Jacob () and on Friday night, at compline, a ''Canon on the Raising of Lazarus'' by Saint Andrew of Crete is sung; this is a rare full canon, having all nine canticles. The scripture readings and hymns for this day focus on the raising of Lazarus as a foreshadowing of the Resurrection of Christ and a prefiguring of the General Resurrection. The Gospel narrative is interpreted in the hymns as illustrating the two natures of Christ: his ''humanity'' in asking, "Where have ye laid him?" (), and his ''divinity'' by commanding Lazarus to come forth from the dead (). A number of the hymns, written in the first or second person, relate Lazarus' death, entombment and burial bonds symbolically to the individual's sinful state. Many of the resurrectional hymns of the normal Sunday service are sung while prayers for the departed, prescribed on Sundays, are permitted. During the divine liturgy, the baptismal hymn, "As many as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ" () replaces the Trisagion indicating that this had been a day on which baptisms were performed 〔 and in some churches nowadays adult converts are still baptized on this day. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lazarus Saturday」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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