Web Site Home - Theology Home - Hierarchy Home - Locations Home - Education Home - Stewardship Home - Links Home - Vendors Home - Alphabetical Index Home - Thesaurus Home - Sitemap Home - Arabic fonts Melkite Greek Catholic Church Information CenterThe Great Feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Lifegiving Cross - (Sunday of the) Fourth Week after the Holy Cross: Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council (The Second Council of Nicaea)
The Sunday of the Fourth Week after the Great Feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Lifegiving Cross is theoretically the fifth Sunday following the Great Feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Lifegiving Cross. The (Sunday after) The Fourth Week of the Great Feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Lifegiving Cross honors the Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council in 787. The Second Council of Nicaea was convoked by Emperor Constantine VI and his mother Irene, under Pope Adrian I, and was presided over by the legates of Pope Adrian. Between 300 and 367 bishops attended. The Seventh Ecumenical Council is also named "The Second Council of Nicaea". The accomplishment of the Second Council of Nicaea is the regulation of the veneration of ikons. IkonsIn 787, the Seventh Ecumenical Council declared that we worship only Holy God, but we venerate or reverence the person being depicted on the ikons, not the wood or paint of the ikons. The reason was that Holy God the Son within the Holy Trinity / Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ took on human flesh, a part of the earth's matter; therefore it is possible to depict Him through material symbols. A symbol, which has verbal images, is a Gospel. A symbol, which has material images, is an ikon. Holy ikons portray the divine Sonship and actions of Holy God the Son within the Holy Trinity / Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ by means of paints and colors. Thus, we remember and experience Holy God the Son within the Holy Trinity / Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ when we prayerfully read the Gospels and when we prayerfully behold him in ikons. The Seventh Ecumenical Council declared that ikons are proper in churches and homes, because they help Christians pray by reminding us of the presence of Holy God the Son within the Holy Trinity / Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ and the Saints. Kontakion, Troparion, Exapostilarion, and Vespers Sticheron or DoxastikonKONTAKION (TONE 8) TROPARION (TONE 8) DateThe Great Feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Lifegiving Cross - (Sunday after) The Fourth Week: Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council (The Second Council of Nicaea) occurs on the Sunday during the period of 11 to 18 Oct.
Liturgical CycleFrom the Monday after the Great Feast of Pentecost to Great and Holy Saturday, Sunday is the last day of the Liturgical week.
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