Sunday of the Fathers of the Fourth Ecumenical Council (Titus 3:8-15)
Sunday of the Fathers of the Fourth Ecumenical Council (Titus 3:8-15) This is the Epistle Reading of the Sunday of the Fathers of the Fourth Ecumenical Council (14 July), and it was at this Council in 453 that the Church denounced Monophysitism as a heresy. The reading starts with St Paul telling Titus, his disciple, to affirm to his flock that they should continue living virtuous lives filled with good works. It continues with St Paul contrasting the good in the virtuous life with the folly of “foolish questionings, genealogies, strife and disputes about the law” (Titus 3:9). St John [...]