Apolytikion of The Holy Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Council (Tone 8)
”Thou, O Christ, art our God of exceeding praise, Who didst establish our Holy Fathers as luminous stars upon the earth, and through them didst guide us unto the true Faith, O most merciful One, Glory to Thee.”
*Music arrangements and chanting by Caty Daoura
*Video editing by Fr. Deacon Yakoub Daoura
On the Sunday that falls from the 13th to the 19th of the present month, we chant the Service to the 630 Holy and God-bearing Fathers who came together for the 4th Ecumenical Council who assembled in Chalcedon in 451, to condemn Eutyches, who taught that there was only one nature, the divine, in Christ after the Incarnation, and Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria, who illegally received Eutyches back into communion and deposed Saint Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople, who had excommunicated Eutyches.
In the Slavic tradition, on this Sunday, the Fathers of the first six Ecumenical Councils are all commemorated.
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