In considering the tomb and those in the tomb, we weep,
But we should not; for we do not know whence they have come,
And where they are now, and who has them.
They have come from temporal life, released from its sorrows;
They are at peace, waiting for the receiving of divine light.
The Lover of Man has them in His charge, and He has divested them of their temporal clothing
In order that He may clothe them with an eternal body.
Why, then, do we weep in vain?
Why do we not trust Christ, as He cries:
“He who believes on me shall not perish,
For even if he knows corruption, after that corruption,
He will be resurrected and he will rise up
Saying, ‘Thou art the Life and the Resurrection'”?
St. Romanos the Melodist, On the Raising of Lazarus I
Locus Communis 