{"id":166525,"date":"2022-05-29T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=166525\/"},"modified":"2022-05-29T09:48:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T06:48:06","slug":"virginmartyr-theodosia-of-tyre-hieromartyr-olivian-6th-sunday-after-pascha-healing-of-man-born-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/virginmartyr-theodosia-of-tyre-hieromartyr-olivian-6th-sunday-after-pascha-healing-of-man-born-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginmartyr Theodosia of Tyre; Hieromartyr Olivian; 6th Sunday after Pascha (Healing of man born blind)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday of the Blind Man<\/strong> – At the end of Chapter 8 in Gospel of Saint John, the Savior was disputing with the Pharisees in the Temple during the Feast of Tabernacles. He told them, \u201cYour father Abraham was glad that he should see my day; and he saw it and rejoiced\u201d (John 8:56).<\/p>\n

The Jews said that Jesus was not even fifty years old, so how could He claim to have seen Abraham? The Lord replied, \u201cBefore Abraham was, I am.\u201d I am, of course, is the name that God revealed to Moses in the Burning Bush. When the Jews picked up stones to throw at Him, He hid Himself and went out of the Temple.<\/p>\n

Christ\u2019s disciples asked Him who had sinned, the blind man or his parents that he had been born blind. Jesus answered, \u201cNeither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God might be manifested in him\u201d (John 9:3).<\/p>\n

It was thought that a person who had some affliction must have sinned (or his parents did) to deserve such punishment. In the Book of Exodus (20:5), God said that he would visit \u201cthe iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.\u201d This, however, applied to the sin of idolatry, if the children emulated their parents\u2019 behavior.<\/p>\n

The blind man was not born blind just so the miracle could be performed, but seeing the man in such a condition, the Lord decided to use him in a way that would manifest God\u2019s glory. He Who is the Light of the world healed the blind man and enlightened him. Giving sight to the blind was one of the signs which would identify the Messiah (Matthew 11:4-6).<\/p>\n

The Lord made clay when He spat on the ground, and placed it in the man\u2019s empty eye sockets and sent him to the pool of Siloam to wash. Most versions of the Gospels translate the word \u03b5\u03c0\u03b5\u03b8\u03b7\u03ba\u03b5\u03bd as \u201canointed,\u201d but it can also mean \u201cto spread on,\u201d or \u201cto smear.\u201d Siloam means \u201csent,\u201d and in Saint John\u2019s Gospel Christ says about forty times that He Himself had been sent by the Father.\u201d<\/p>\n

This manner of healing reminds us of the way God created man by fashioning him from the dust of the earth. In the Old Testament God created man from the dust of the earth, now Christ, the same God, fashions eyes from the clay and places them in the blind man\u2019s empty sockets. Here are some quotes from the Pentecostarion:<\/p>\n

At the Oikos of Matins: \u201cHe receives physical eyes as well as those of the soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saint Theodosia of Tyre<\/strong> lived during the third and fourth centuries. Once, during a persecution against Christians, which had already lasted for five years, the seventeen-year-old Theodosia went up to condemned Christian prisoners in the Praetorium in Caesarea, Palestine.<\/p>\n

It was the day of Holy Pascha, and the martyrs spoke about the Kingdom of God. Saint Theodosia asked them to remember her before the Lord, when they should come to stand before Him.<\/p>\n

Soldiers saw that the maiden bowed to the prisoners, and they seized her and led her before the governor, Urban. The governor advised the maiden to offer sacrifice to the idols but she refused, confessing her faith in Christ. Then they subjected the saint to cruel tortures, raking her body with iron claws until her bones were exposed.<\/p>\n

The martyr was silent and endured the sufferings with a happy face, and to a second suggestion by the governor to offer sacrifice to the idols she answered, \u201cYou fool, I have been granted to join the martyrs!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

They threw the maiden with a stone about her neck into the sea, but angels drew her out from the depths. Then they threw the martyr to the wild beasts to be eaten by them. Seeing that the beasts would not touch her, they cut off her head.<\/p>\n

By night Saint Theodosia appeared to her parents, who had tried to talk their daughter into not going to the sufferings. She was in bright garb with a crown upon her head and a luminous gold cross in her hand, and she said, \u201cBehold the great glory of which you wanted to deprive me!\u201d<\/p>\n

The Holy Martyr Theodosia of Tyre suffered for Christ in the year 307 or 308. On May 29 we commemorate the transfer of her relics to Constantinople and Venice. She is also commemorated on April 3.<\/p>\n

Troparion \u2014 Tone 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your lamb Theodosia, \/ calls out to You, O Jesus, in a loud voice: \/ \u201cI love You, my Bridegroom, \/ and in seeking You, I endure suffering. \/ In baptism I was crucified so that I might reign in You, \/ and I died so that I might live with You. \/ Accept me as a pure sacrifice, \/ for I have offered myself in love.\u201d \/ Through her prayers save our souls, since You are merciful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tr by oca.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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