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Q423The Fifth Petition: “Forgive Us Our Debts”
It is through the blood of Jesus Christ that God forgives the debt of sin, as the Scriptures testify: Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead… To him who loves us…
Read the answer →Q283The Tenth Article: The Mysteries
Baptism, the act by which a person is immersed in water in the name of the Holy Trinity and thereby joined to Christ, is the expression of one’s faith and the means of entrance…
Read the answer →Q315Holy Communion: The Eucharist
“Holy Communion” refers to the act of partaking of the Holy Eucharist as the consecrated Bread (Body) and Wine (Blood) of the Lord Jesus Christ, accomplished in the Divine Liturgy of the Church: When…
Read the answer →Q070The Creed of the Orthodox Christian Faith
All Orthodox Christians recognize seven Ecumenical Councils: (1) Nicaea I (325), which condemned Arius and confessed the Son to be homoousios with the Father; (2) Constantinople I (381), which confirmed the divinity of the…
Read the answer →Q484On the Unity between Faith and Love
Love that does not issue in acts of mercy, when opportunity arises, is not real: true love naturally shows itself in good works, as the Lord teaches: “Whoever has my commandments and keeps them,…
Read the answer →Q230The Seventh Article: The Second Coming
The Lord will appear at the end of the age, the consummation of human history, he who is before history and beyond it: “You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth,…
Read the answer →Q008A measure of faith is indispensable because Orthodox catechetical instruction concerns the invisible and incomprehensible God, and “the Wisdom of God hidden in a Mystery” (1Co 2:7; see Q252). Many parts of this teaching…
Read the answer →Q085The First Article: God
The Apostle Paul says: To him who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, alone possessing immortality and dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no one has seen,…
Read the answer →Q024On Holy Tradition and Holy Scripture
Tradition has been recorded in the writings of the early Christians and the Fathers, as well as in the holy liturgies. Because Tradition is intimately bound to the life of the Church and the…
Read the answer →Q212The Fifth Article: The Resurrection
Our assurance of Christ’s victory is that he rose again, after having died and lain in the tomb for three days. His resurrection has laid the foundation for our own resurrection, which is our…
Read the answer →Q531On the Second Commandment
The inspired Psalm warns: “The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands: they have mouths, but they speak not; they have eyes, but they see not; they have…
Read the answer →Q224The Sixth Article: The Ascension
The Lord Jesus Christ is a single person, and his two natures are united “without confusion, without change, without division, without separation.” It is therefore a glorified human being, who is the Word of…
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