“Going to Thy passion, O Lord, Thou didst take Thy disciples aside and reassure them: ‘Have you forgotten the words that I once spoke? Is it not written: A Prophet cannot be killed but in Jerusalem? Now is the time of which I told you. Behold, I am betrayed into the hands of sinners to be mocked. They will nail me to the cross, and deliver me up to burial, regarding me as a dead man, a thing of loathing. Yet take courage, for I will arise on the third day, giving to the faithful joy and life everlasting.”

With great joy, Elijah Dylan Bogolea was baptized on Lazarus Saturday. May God grant many blessed years to Elijah; his Godparents, Mike and Daria Eckerd; his parents, Demetrius and Christie Bogolea; and all who witnessed this sacrament.