The somber tone of Holy Week is preceded by a two day feast commemorating the resurrection of Lazarus who had been dead for 4 days, and the triumphant entry of our Lord into Jerusalem. It is significant that Holy Week begins with Christ resurrecting Lazarus from the dead. This event confirms the power of Christ over the living and the dead and foreshadows our Lord’s Second Coming when He will raise all the dead by His command. We begin these events of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ with “death beginning to tremble.”