There are only two weeks until Easter, and the biblical readings of this Sunday all speak of resurrection. They do not yet speak of Jesus' resurrection -- which will irrupt as something absolutely new -- but of our resurrection, the one to which we aspire and that Christ himself granted to us, rising from the dead. In effect, death is for us like a wall that keeps us from seeing what lies beyond; and yet our heart desires to go beyond this wall, and even if we are unable to know what it hides, we nevertheless think about it, we imagine it, we express our yearning for eternity with symbols.
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On the Resurrection of Lazarus - it is a reality that goes beyond our reason
In a 2011 Angelus address, Pope Benedict XVI reflects on the raising of Lazarus as a sign that death is not the end, describing Christ as “the resurrection and the life” who overcomes the limits of human reason
Pope Benedict XVI

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