Today, on the first Sunday of Lent, the Holy Orthodox Church and her triumph over all heretical doctrines and evildoers who try to pass themselves off as genuine exponents of the truth and true light that comes only from the Holy Gospel and Holy Tradition is solemnly displayed. temple.
Today, March 24, our Holy Church celebrates the eve of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and honors the memory of Sainted Artemon, Bishop of Seleucia, as well as the holy martyr Artemon, Presbyter of Laodicea.
It should be noted that in the locality of Ornithi, on the road from Nicosia to the communities of Athania and Assia, is the historic Church of St. Artemon, which is celebrated today and on October 8.
We have already said that today the Church prepares us with the pre-feasts of the Gospel.
The great feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary marks the fulfillment of God's eternal will for the salvation of the human race:
Nowadays the grace of the world, thanks to the preliminaries, is called to the feast; so is produced Gabri, to the Virgin comes an angel, and to Do not let it burn; Ha ire Kecharitomeni, the Lord is with you.
Today is Orthodoxy Week and believers honor with all greatness the historical fact of the prevalence of the correct doctrine of the image of the face of the God-man Jesus Christ, the Mother of God. and All Saints.
For a century the Church was literally shaken by the evils of iconoclasm. The great Father and Teacher of the Church of those who gave his own testimony was John Damascene, who in 8 A.D. of the century he restated and interpreted the teaching expressed by Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea of Cappadocia in 4 A.D. . century
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The theological teaching asserts that the worship of believing icons does not remain in matter, in the image, but moves to the prototype of the person being depicted. This position was formulated as a condition of faith at the Seventh Ecumenical Council in Nicea in 787 A.D.
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Only the Triune God, that is, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are truly and effectively worshipped . We exemplify Jesus Christ, the second person of the Holy Trinity, because in His unique existence God the Word perfectly took the human nature and united it to the Divine by (hypostatic union). We also depict the Saints, in honor of the Despot Christ.
Today in the churches there is a procession of holy icons, a song of thanksgiving is sung, the Creed is confessed and the Synod of Orthodoxy of the Seventh Ecumenical Council is read : "This faith of the Apostles, this faith of the Fathers, this faith of the Orthodox, this faith has sustained the world."
With this faith we Christians are born and live, with this faith we breathe and with the this one dying, passing into eternity.
In the afternoon there is the Great Solemn Vespers of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary.
Bishop Grigoriou of Mesaori
Today, March 24, our Holy Church celebrates the eve of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and honors the memory of Sainted Artemon, Bishop of Seleucia, as well as the holy martyr Artemon, Presbyter of Laodicea.
It should be noted that in the locality of Ornithi, on the road from Nicosia to the communities of Athania and Assia, is the historic Church of St. Artemon, which is celebrated today and on October 8.
We have already said that today the Church prepares us with the pre-feasts of the Gospel.
The great feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary marks the fulfillment of God's eternal will for the salvation of the human race:
Nowadays the grace of the world, thanks to the preliminaries, is called to the feast; so is produced Gabri, to the Virgin comes an angel, and to Do not let it burn; Ha ire Kecharitomeni, the Lord is with you.
Today is Orthodoxy Week and believers honor with all greatness the historical fact of the prevalence of the correct doctrine of the image of the face of the God-man Jesus Christ, the Mother of God. and All Saints.
For a century the Church was literally shaken by the evils of iconoclasm. The great Father and Teacher of the Church of those who gave his own testimony was John Damascene, who in 8 A.D. of the century he restated and interpreted the teaching expressed by Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea of Cappadocia in 4 A.D. . century
.
The theological teaching asserts that the worship of believing icons does not remain in matter, in the image, but moves to the prototype of the person being depicted. This position was formulated as a condition of faith at the Seventh Ecumenical Council in Nicea in 787 A.D.
.
Only the Triune God, that is, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are truly and effectively worshipped . We exemplify Jesus Christ, the second person of the Holy Trinity, because in His unique existence God the Word perfectly took the human nature and united it to the Divine by (hypostatic union). We also depict the Saints, in honor of the Despot Christ.
Today in the churches there is a procession of holy icons, a song of thanksgiving is sung, the Creed is confessed and the Synod of Orthodoxy of the Seventh Ecumenical Council is read : "This faith of the Apostles, this faith of the Fathers, this faith of the Orthodox, this faith has sustained the world."
With this faith we Christians are born and live, with this faith we breathe and with the this one dying, passing into eternity.
In the afternoon there is the Great Solemn Vespers of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary.
Bishop Grigoriou of Mesaori
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