As we move from the feast of the Ascension to that of Pentecost, we’re essentially progressing from the feast of the glorification of human nature to that of our illumination. Between these feasts, the Church inserts the commemoration of the 1st Ecumenical Synod, which convened in Nicaea in Bithynia. The Sunday of the Holy Fathers is a feast which is primarily concerned with the truth of the faith. Not with faith as an ideology, as a theoretical evolvement approached and managed by the brain, through reason, or by memorization. Rather, with the faith in its real dimension, its essential form, the very truth. Eternal life as knowledge The Gospel reading is from the beginning of Christ’s prayer before he went to the ...





















