Bringing forth Lazarus from a blank canvas “Life is built, and then it stops, and then Christ reaches in and brings it forward again.” ...

You feel it’s an invitation from God to emerge from the tomb—and it is. Like us, Lazarus can only “come forth” because he knows and trusts in the person who calls him.

Father James Martin deserves our gratitude for this new text devoted to what he calls “Jesus’s greatest miracle”: the resurrection of Lazarus, Pope Francis writes in a new preface to the ...