Sunday Sermon

Our Lord is ascended into heaven! This great mystery brings with it a mixture of joy and of sorrow to the Apostles. Joy that our Lord is seated at the right hand of the Father, but sorrow that the Lord has gone ahead, leaving them behind in this world. Our Lord had promised them, however, that He would not leave them orphans. The Holy Ghost would be sent to them in all power, and they would be witnesses unto the Lord even unto the uttermost regions of the world. In His power, His presence, and His essence our Lord truly remains with us forever. Today the Church remembers those successors of the Apostles, the Fathers of the Council of Nicea. Having received themselves the Apostolic faith, these saintly men stood firm in the face of heresy and proclaimed to the world that faith which they had received. To this day we re-echo their declaration and hold fast to this same faith.