Michael Italikos was consecrated as didaskalos of the Gospels on Christmas Day, and two days later he prepared this didaskalia. He was full of joy at the promotion, after waiting what he considered a long time as didaskalos of the Epistles, renewed for fresh efforts in the spirit of Christmas. He felt like a fisherman tending his nets on the Sea of Gallilee, called by a Christ-patriarch (Leon Stypes) to be an apostle. He had spent time with David, teaching the Psalms, then with Paul, on the Epistles; now he passed on to the Gopels. Like Moses, he had seen God, and rejoiced. The patriarch had taken him in his old age and made him part of a Christmas tableau