The Seventh Ecumenical Council, convoked by the Empress Irene and met at Nicaea from September 24 to October 13, 787. Patriarch Tarasios (commemorated February 25) presided. The council ended almost fifty years of iconoclast persecution and established the...

Troparion

Overshadowed by thy coming, O Mother of God, we the right faithful people, celebrate today with splendor, and gazing at thine all-precious image, we say with compunction: Cover us with thy precious omophorion, and deliver us from all evil,...

“By this sign shall ye conquer!”

These holy words spoken from Heaven came down on the Emperor Constantine in the fourth century.   Responding to this message the Emperor commanded that the shields of his soldiers be emblazoned with the Holy...

  Is one saved by faith alone, or by faith and works?

This argument, an argument that in the light of Apostolic Tradition is so obviously pointless, has never troubled the Church, and in fact could never trouble It.  In fact, faith is not...