The Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church in North
America ® (American Orthodox Catholic Church) [sm]
Teachings
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Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner
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Our teachings are based on the faith of the Universal Church as set
forth in the Nicene Creed. The mystery of the Holy Trinity and the mystery
of the incarnation are central to our teachings. We believe in One Triune
God: Father, Son and Holy-Spirit. We also believe and teach that the
Only-begotten Son of God became incarnate for us men and for our salvation
and became man. The same God begotten of his Father before all worlds
without beginning according to his divinity was begotten of a mother
without a father according to his humanity im a body of flesh with a
rational, intelligent, and immortal soul which he took from the womb of
the Blessed Virgin Mary and united to himself, making it his very own at
the moment of conception. The humanity he took for his own was assumed by
God the Word, who was, thenceforth and for ever, the personal subject of
the divine and human natures. His divine and human natures retain their
own properties, faculties, and operations unconfusedly, immutably,
undividedly, and inseparably.
Therefore, because the divinity and humanity are united in the Person
of the same and only Son of God and Lord Jesus Christ, this Church rejects
any teaching which suggests that Christ is an "ordinary man"whom God the
Word inhabited, like the righteous men and the prophets of old. We further
reject any teaching that explicitly or implicitly suggests that there are
two Sons, or two Lords, or two Christs in our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. We confess one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who is the same
yesterday, today and forever. The same, through his passion, death, burial
and resurrection, redeemed humanity from the bondage of sin and death, and
secured the hope of resurrection and new life for all who put their faith
in him, to whom, with his Father and the Holy Spirit, belongs confession,
worship and adoration unto ages of ages.
Amen. |