PRIEST: To those who scorn the venerable and holy ecumenical Councils, and who despise even more their dogmatic and canonical traditions; and to those who say that all things were not perfectly defined and delivered by the councils, but that they left the greater part mysterious, unclear, and untaught, ANATHEMA.
Faithful: Anathema.
To those who hold in contempt the sacred and divine canons of our blessed fathers, which, by sustaining the holy Church of God and adorning the whole Christian Church, guide to divine reverence, ANATHEMA.
To all things innovated and enacted contrary to the Church tradition,
teaching, and institution of the holy and ever-memorable fathers, or to
anything hence-forth so enacted, ANATHEMA.
To those who accept the visions of the prophets, albeit unwillingly, and
who do not – O wonder! – accept the images seen by the prophets even
before the incarnation of the Word, but who babble that the intangible
and invisible essence was seen by the prophets, and who, even when they
concede that images and types and forms were truly revealed to the
prophets, still cannot endure to depict in icons the Word become man and
His sufferings for our sake, ANATHEMA.
To those who hear the Lord’s words: “Had ye believed Moses, ye would
have believed Me” and so forth, and who understand Moses when he says,
“The Lord our God will raise up to you a prophet of your brethren, like
me,” and who then say that they accept the Prophet, yet they do not
permit the grace and universal salvation of the Prophet to be depicted
in icons, how He was seen, how He lived with mankind, how He worked
healings of incurable passions and diseases, how He was crucified, was
buried, and arose, in short, all that He both suffered and wrought for
us; to those, therefore, who cannot endure to gaze upon these universal
and saving deeds in icons, neither honor nor worship them, ANATHEMA.
To those who persist in the heresy of denying icons, or rather the
apostasy of denying Christ, and who are not counseled by the Mosaic law
to be led to their salvation, nor convinced to return to piety by the
apostolic teachings, nor induced by patristic exhortations and
explanations to abandon their deception, nor persuaded by the agreement
of the Churches of God throughout the whole world, but who have once and
for all joined themselves to the portion of the Jews and Greeks: for
the blasphemies cast by the Jews and Greeks at the prototype, have been
shamelessly used by the former to insult through His icon Him that is
depicted therein; therefore, to those who are incorrigibly possessed by
this deception and have their ears covered towards every divine word and
spiritual teaching, since they are already putrefied members, having
cut themselves off from the common body of the Church, ANATHEMA.
To those who do not confess that the Word and Son of God was begotten
without change from the Father before the ages, and that in these latter
times, out of His abundant loving kindness, He was incarnate of the
immaculate Theotokos Mary and became man for our salvation, taking upon
Himself all that pertains to us save sin; and to those who do not
partake of His holy and immortal Mysteries with fear, since they
consider them to be mere bread and common wine rather than the very
flesh of the Master and His holy and precious blood shed for the life of
the world; to such men be, ANATHEMA.
To those who do not worship the Cross of our Lord and God and Savior
Jesus Christ as the salvation and glory of the whole world, as that
which annulled and utterly destroyed the machinations and weapons of the
enemy and redeemed creation from the idols and manifested victory to
the world, but who consider the Cross to be a tyrannical weapon; to such
men be, ANATHEMA.
To those who attack the Church of Christ by teaching that Christ’s
Church is divided into so‑called “branches” which differ in doctrine and
way of life, or that the Church does not exist visibly, but will be
formed in the future when all “branches” or sects or denominations, and
even religions will be united into one body; and who do not distinguish
the priesthood and mysteries of the Church from those of the heretics,
but say that the baptism and Eucharist of heretics is effectual for
salvation; therefore, to those who knowingly have communion with these
aforementioned heretics or who advocate, disseminate, or defend their
new heresy of Ecumenism under the pretext of brotherly love or the
supposed unification of separated Christians, ANATHEMA.
PRIEST: To them who confess with word, mouth, heart, and
mind, and with both writing and icons depict the incarnate advent of God
the Word, ETERNAL MEMORY.
Chanter: Eternal memory (3). All the faithful should join in.
PRIEST: To them who acknowledge in Christ one Hypostasis,
with different essences, and attribute to the one hypostasis both the
created and uncreated, the visible and invisible, the passible and
impassible, the circumscrible and uncircumscrible; and then who apply on
the one hand, to the Divine essence uncreatedness and the like, and, on
the other hand, acknowledge with word and icons that the human nature
has the other attributes accompanying circumscription, ETERNAL MEMORY.
Chanter: Eternal memory (3). Again with all the faithful.
PRIEST: To them who believe and preach, that is proclaims,
doctrines by means of writings and deeds by means of forms, and link
them in a single proclamation, whereby the truth is affirmed in word and
icon, ETERNAL MEMORY.
Chanter: Eternal memory (3). Again with all the faithful.
Chanter: Wherefore, we cry to Thee thankfully: Thou didst fill all things with joy, O our Savior.
PRIEST: As the prophets have seen, as the apostles have
taught, as the Church has received, as the teachers have set forth in
dogmas, as the whole world has understood, as Grace has shone forth, as
the truth was demonstrated, as falsehood was banished, as wisdom was
emboldened, as Christ has awarded; thus do we believe, thus we speak,
thus we preach Christ our true God and His saints, honoring them in
words, in writings, in thoughts, in sacrifices, in temples, and in
icons, worship ping and respecting the One as God and Master, and
honoring the others, and apportioning relative worship to them, because
of our common Master for they are His genuine servants. this is the
Faith of the apostles, this is the Faith of the fathers, this is the
Faith of the Orthodox, this Faith hath established the whole world.
PRIEST: What God is as great as our God? Thou art our God, who alone worketh wonders
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