Compassionate and Powerful - A Look at Christ's Raising of the Dead

The Gospel account of Christ's raising from the dead of the son of the widow of Nain is best understood as part of a series of three accounts of Christ raising the dead. In these accounts, we find the compassionate and powerful Lord exercising his absolute dominion over death - a power that would become more evident in his own resurrection. In these account we may reflect on our own grief and the promise of the coming resurrection of in the last days.A portion of this homily is inspired by the ideas of Rdr. Peter Sizer as published at the Orthodox Research Institute