The Repose of our Venerable Father Theodosius, Hegumen of the Monastery of the Caves at Kyiv and Organizer of the Cenobitic (Common) Life in Rus (1074) and the Holy Martyrs Timothy and Maura (286-305)
Rank: Polyeleos. Abstinence from meat and foods that contain meat.
Read
Acts 5:1-11; Hebrews 13:7-16
John 5:30-6:2; Matthew 11:27-30
Christ is risen! Truly, He is risen!
Today Jesus makes an inextricable link between himself and the writings of Moses. Traditionally Moses is considered the author of the Torah, the first five books of what we call the Old Testament. Jesus tells his followers that to believe Moses’ writings is to believe in him, for they speak the one and the same word. Jesus Christ is the summary of all the Scriptures; Origen of Alexandria calls him “The word abbreviated.”
Irenaeus calls Christ the treasure “buried in the field of sacred scripture.” The Byzantine tradition sees Christ everywhere in the Scriptures and sings about it in its hymnography. Christ is the fulfilment of Moses’ vision on Sinai: “Enveloped by the divine cloud, the man of unsure speech taught the law written by God; wiping the dust from his eyes, he saw the One-who-is and was initiated into the knowledge of the spirit. Let us praise him with inspired songs” (Irmos Ode 1, Second Canon of Pentecost). The awkward English title, “the One-who-is,” is a rendering of the Greek translation of the divine name that God revealed to Moses in the burning bush. In its Greek form, the name is inscribed into the halo of the icon of Christ. Our icons the dots between the revelation of God to Moses in Exodus and the God we profess in the creed. Let us heed Christ’s teaching to see all the scriptures in light of him, shaking the dust from our eyes so that we can behold the fullness of his glory.
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