This is the Faith of the Orthodox

As we complete the first week of the Great Fast, the Church reminds us of the truth of the Church. Christ, the Son of God, of One Essence with the Father, took on human flesh for our salvation. Because of His love for us, we had, have and will continue to have a real physical relationship with Him. He was, and is real, and therefore we honor Him in Holy Icons and Churches. This is the Faith of the Orthodox that we celebrate each year with a procession of the Holy Icons for the world to know that our God, is THE God Who Created all things. This is the truth the Church has proclaimed to the world since the beginning of the Church. This is the truth that was confirmed in 787 AD before there were any denominations.

Synodikon

From the proceedings of the Seventh Ecumenical Council read on the Sunday of Orthodoxy

As the prophets beheld, as the Apostles have taught, as the Church has received, as the teachers have dogmatized, as the universe has agreed, as grace has illumined, as truth has revealed, as falsehood has been dispelled, as wisdom has presented, as Christ has triumphed; this we believe, this we declare, this we preach: Christ our true God, and His saints we honor in words, in writings, in thoughts, in sacrifices, in temples, in icons, on the one hand bowing down and worshiping Christ as God and Master, on the other hand honoring the saints as true servants of the Master of all, and offering to them due veneration.

• This is the faith of the Apostles!
• This is the faith of the Fathers!
• This is the faith of the Orthodox!
• This is the faith which has established the Universe!

Therefore with fraternal and filial love we praise the heralds of the faith, those who with glory and honor have struggled for the faith, and we say: for the champions of Orthodoxy, faithful emperors, most-holy patriarchs, hierarchs, teachers, martyrs and confessors: may their memory be eternal.

(Sing) Eternal be their memory; • Eternal be their memory; • Eternal be their memory.

Let us beseech God that we may be instructed and strengthened by the trials and struggles of these saints, which they endured for the Faith even unto death, and by their teachings, entreating that we may to the end imitate their godly life. May we be deemed worthy of obtaining our requests through the mercy and grace of the great and First Hierarch, Christ our God, through the intercessions of our glorious Lady, the Theotokos and ever-Virgin Mary, the divine Angels and all the saints. Amen.