October 13
Sunday of the 7th Ecumenical Council
On the Sunday that falls on or immediately after the eleventh of this month, we chant the Service to the 350 holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, which gathered in Nicaea in 787 under the holy Patriarch Tarasius and during the reign of the Empress Irene and her son, Constantine Porphyrogenitus, to refute the Iconoclast heresy, which had received imperial support beginning with the Edict issued in 726 by Emperor Leo the Isaurian. Many of the holy Fathers who condemned Iconoclasm at this holy Council later died as Confessors and Martyrs for the holy Icons during the second assult of Iconoclasm in the ninth century, especially during the reigns of Leo the Armenian and Theophilus.
In the 5th and 6th grades of our Sunday school program, our focus is to understand the principals of giving and helping others from the heart! Please communicate with the children at home and teachers in Sunday school classrooms, the importance of using their God-given skills and abilities, (talents) to help others with love, kindness, faithfulness, compassion, & humility. We’d like to invite you to participate in this year’s endeavor each Sunday with a small token, however big or small that may be.
Tuesday, October 17, 2019
