Sermons & Homilies
Today we commemorate the Holy Fathers gathered by the Holy Spirit at Nicaea in 787 to defend the Church against the accusations of the iconoclasts that the veneration of icons is idolatry, and to solidify the Apostolic tradition of the veneration of holy things. The Fathers of the Council made up a word to name the iconoclasts, which amounts to, “the accusers of Christians,” which they uttered constantly during the Council.
The feast of St. Gregory Palamas this Sunday is a second Triumph of Orthodoxy. It was first instituted less than 10 years after St. Gregory reposed in the Lord. This is a remarkable fact. This ought to tell us something. It says, our Fathers recognized something so important and essential in the life and teaching of St. Gregory that they did not hesitate to accord it public veneration and to praise it with sacred hymns, even while he was within living memory.
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