Sunday Sermon

"You shall be witnesses unto Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth." On the Sunday after the Ascension of our Lord, we make the remembrance of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council. This day we commemorate the 318 God-bearing Fathers who gathered in Nicaea in the year 325, to address the heresy of Arianism as well as other grave issues that concerned the Church. The bishops of the Church, with one mouth and one voice, declared the truth of the faith handed down to the Church from the Apostles. They declared that the Son and Word of God is one in essence with the Father, true God of true God. The Fathers composed the holy symbol of Faith, the Nicene Creed.