Three times a year the Church celebrates Fathers memories; now the sixth Sunday after Easter, one Sunday in July and one Sunday in October. This shows how the Church honors the holy Fathers, as called attributes Church Fathers, so-called Martyrs Church. The Fathers' Church canon g15 are clerics of all grades, canon g15 Bishops, Elders, Deacons, and even ordinary monks; not only wise and, as we say today, educated and intellectuals, but spiritual experience people and holiness. Today anyone who may be saying and write five words, dealing with the arts and letters, easily charizome the title of the spiritual man. But spirituality is experience holiness, and that it 's one of the traits of the Church Fathers. The Fathers of the Church are people with orthodox beliefs, life in holiness and spiritual experience.
But when we say that the Church is the Church Fathers, we mean that our faith is orthodox doctrine canon g15 and tradition of the Apostles, that reaches our Warranty and prestige through the interpretation of the holy Fathers.
In the Creed we confess that the one holy catholic and apostolic Church; it is that the Church of Christ, according to the doctrine and tradition of the Apostles. This apostolic tradition of the Church to hold through the Holy Fathers. The Fathers are the bridges of which passes and perpetuate in the Church the apostolic tradition. So when we say the Church apostolic, is the same like to say; the Patristic Fathers canon g15 in the Church guarantee the apostolicity of the faith and for orthodoxy. canon g15 Orthodoxy will tell patristic tradition. Is viewed in this way, which made the decisions of the Ecumenical canon g15 Councils. The decision of the Fourth Ecumenical Synod begins thus; "Next Holy Fathers ...". So the decision of the Seventh Ecumenical Synod; "Epakolouthountes theigoro the teaching of our holy Fathers and the tradition of the Catholic Church ...". They will say that the fathers, teaching them that it is the river that always flows in the same bed of ecclesiastical tradition.
In the Gospel, which is read at Mass, Jesus Christ pray to the heavenly Father for his disciples and for the Church. canon g15 Students of it 'they were given by the Father; he taught them, and keep them not lost them only "the son of perdition," the one who alone chose and wanted canon g15 to lose. It is time, and the teacher will now leave, while students will stay, lifting the burden of a price and a liability. The price is that God called them; the responsibility that they stayed in the world, should shepherd the Church. And first of all stay united and keep united the faithful. The Church above all is one, and there can be neither holy nor universal nor apostolic, although not one. But the unity of the Church is not stored with the unity of the pastors of the Church, and this again is not than by fear and power and fear of God. Therefore pray the Great High Priest; "Keeping them in Your name, ear dedokas me, fiber osin that as we"; those who gave me keeping it in your name, to be one as we are.
This excerpt from the Episcopal prayer of the Lord is a perfect pastoral text. Enough to read it carefully, to see in it what is the Church, what are the pastors of the Church and what is their work. So I was chosen to read the memory of the holy Fathers, who are pastors and teachers of the Church, successors of the Apostles. The Church is not a human organization; it is the kingdom of Christ, which "is not of this world"; it has no worldly origin and not supported by conditions of this world, the Church. The Church is the Apostles, the Martyrs, Prophets, Hierarchs, the Saints and Righteous, canon g15 all God's people, who make up the body of Christ. Enas- one separately, as individuals and members of the body, and all along the body, head Jesus Christ! First quality and feature of this body to exist and live, it is unity, the Church is one. Heresies and schisms is the great enemy within the Church, who ravaged and destroyed its unity. That was and is always the first and foremost task of the Fathers and Pastors of the Church, that they kept that and keep united the
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