A Primer on the Nicene Creed

[@living_orthodox]

Thank you Father and fellow priest for putting this out there! In Christ, -Fr Mikhail

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Father bless. Your KZbin channel is very edifying as well. Thank God. ☦️

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Dear Patristic Nectar team. Thank you so much for all your work. In Christ. ❤

[@Mrkevi123]

Thank you for the explanation father

[@lindaphillips4646]

Thank you. The idea that every Christian , every Orthodox Christian, wants to (or should want to)repose with the words of the Nicene Creed on their lips is new to me.. but very wonderful and important. The series sounds excellent. As i would expect it to be.

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Your blessing, Father 🙏 Blessed Ascension ☦️ Thank you and God bless you for all your teachings & reflections 🙏☦️😇🕯️ It is important for us to listen and learn!!!

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Thank you, Father Josiah

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Good stuff to listen to while driving.

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Excelent

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Looking forward to this, Father.

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[@jefferypfister6499]

Saint Nicholas of Symira(Santa Claus) was at the 325AD council. Legend says he punched out Arius.

[@lindaphillips4646]

Well, i believe that he slapped him. Because he was so horrified at the blasphemy coming out of the mouth of that dreadful man. I know that the information in is many places, but the Prologue of Ohrid (by St. Nicholai of Zicha,) tells the fuller story of the events that happened after that quite beautifully.

[@stefaniesean]

Our blessed Saint Nicholas was a gentle man, but when Aries was spewing his heresy claiming that our Lord Jesus Christ is not God but only a supreme being, he could not take it any more. He just went to Aries and smacked him on both sides of the face and asked him: "What was the difference between the 2?" The synod was an official gathering in the present of the emperor Constantin and his mother Helen. In this case the protocol was broken and Saint Nicholas was stripped of his priestly garments (emophor) and put in prison. It is there that our Lord and His Blessed Mother have appeared to the saint and Jesus gave him back his Gospel and The Theotokos gave him his priestly robe. Hearing about this miracle the emperor released the saint.

[@lindaphillips4646]

Thank you, steff. Yes, we usually see the calm and peaceful St. Nicholas in his icons. I had the blessing to go to a service in St. Petersburg one Sunday morning at a church whose name i don't know. Not one of the more famous ones. Below Nevsky Prospect. At a rather large intersection. After our friend and i had climbed the steps to the upper church we were met with a most wonderful icon of St. Nicholas on one of the interior columns.. He was quite forceful. Not fiery. But he had the righteous countenance of someone who would have withstood arius. I have never seen another icon like it. Have always been sorry that i didn't get a photo of it. If that had been allowed. I was back in the city in 2005, and took a long walk to go back to it. But i had run out of time and had to turn back. And i believed that the church was locked. I only have a vague memory of what the icon looked like. But St. Nicholas knows i loved it and learned to love him more because of it. Thank you, dear Saint Nicholas, and all the fathers of the first Ecumenical Council. We are truly in your debt..

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[@paulpeter2869]

Thank you father for your videos and content. My only complaint is the newly added commercials that abruptly stops the listening experience and get distracted with irrelevant and mostly inappropriate ads. If the ads can be removed would be much nicer, however, i understand the financial revenue coming from this.

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I can almost say 100% that PnP does not run ads and get money from this or have control. KZbin automatically runs ads on certain videos for no reason and creators do not have control over them

[@lindaphillips4646]

Yes, Mr. Wayne, and they juxtapose (isn't that a delightful word? I wish i could use it more often..😏) some rather troubling ads to precede many of the wonderful Orthodox videos we are wanting to watch.

[@Migz2682]

We all know about the Filoque How about "God from God" and there's a section after the Holy Spirit that was removed which neither catholics or orthodox church recite anymore. "But as for those who say, There was when He was not, and, before being born He was not, and that He came into existence out of nothing, or who assert that the Son of God is from a different hypostasis or substance, or is created, or is subject to altera on or change - these the Catholic Church anathemazes."

[@HomoEucharistica]

Perhaps that later section is not recited (to be honest, I have not found any early document in which it would have been recited) because it is not actual part of the Creed, but rather a canonical decision/description what shall be done if someone does not agree with the rule of faith. After all, anathemizing is not an object of faith, and in cases where people don't confess this faith anathemizing is pretty self-evident anyway, at least in Eastern Orthodox Church.

[@Migz2682]

@@HomoEucharistica how about God from God

[@HomoEucharistica]

@@Migz2682 You're right that "God from God" is not in the Nicene formula in itself, but our holy fathers said that "in a footnote" as explanation what it means that Jesus is the begotten Son of the Father. (If I got it right, this clarification appears also in catechetical lectures of Cyril of Jerusalem in 350s.) And finally in the council of Constantinople, "God from God" was ecumenically added to the creed - just like practically whole section about the Holy Spirit and the Church. That's the reason why the creed is also called Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed. And in that council (of Constantinople) the fathers decided together that the creed shouldn't be changed anymore afterwards... because it was now complete and clear.

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Where can I find this 5 part series?

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Where can I find the links to listen to this new series of lectures?

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app.patristicnectar.org/discover/theological-lectures/the-nicene-creed-an-introduction

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