Orthodoxy in America
January 19, 2021
January 16, 2021
SYNODIKON OF THE 7TH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL
The Greater Cleveland Council of Orthodox Clergy present the video of the reading of the Synodikon, commemorating this year’s celebration of Sunday of Orthodoxy. This is a YouTube video. Click here
The text:
SYNODIKON OF THE 7TH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL
As the prophets beheld, as the apostles have taught, as the Church has received, as the teachers have declared, as the world has agreed, as grace has shown forth, as truth has been revealed, as falsehood has been dispelled, as wisdom has become manifest, as Christ awarded;
Thus we declare; thus we affirm; thus we proclaim Christ our true God, and honor His saints in words, writings, thoughts, sacrifices, churches, and holy icons;
On the one hand, worshiping and reverencing Christ as God and Lord, and on the other, honoring the saints as true servants of the same Lord of all, and offering them proper veneration.
Thus is faith of the apostles. This is the faith of the fathers. This is the faith of the Orthodox. This is the faith on which the world is established.
Therefore, with fraternal and filial love we praise the heralds of the faith, those who with glory and honor have struggled for the faith, and we say: to the champions of Orthodoxy, ’faithful emperors, most-holy patriarchs, hierarchs, teachers, Martyrs, and confessors: May your memory be eternal.
Let us beseech God that we may be instructed and strengthened by the trials and struggles of these saints, which they endured for the faith even unto death, and by their teachings, entreating that we may to the end imitate their godly life. May we be deemed worthy of obtaining our requests through the mercy and grace of the Great and FirstHierarch, Christ our God, through the intercessions of ourglorious Lady, the Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary, the divine angels and all the Saints.
(AMEN)