Twenty-first week after Pentecost, Sunday, October 25, 2026: what will happen in the church?translated

On October 25, 2026, on the twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost, the Church celebrates the memory of the holy fathers of the VII Ecumenical Council. They condemned iconoclasm and approved the veneration of icons.

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Sunday, October 25, 2026, Holy Fathers of the VII Ecumenical Council

In 787, the VII Ecumenical Council met in Nicaea. Today we celebrate the memory of its participants who restored the veneration of icons. The problem was that in the 8th–9th centuries the heresy of iconoclasm flourished in Byzantium and this delusion was supported by those in power. Those who kept holy icons or advocated their veneration were subjected to severe persecution, including torture and execution. Iconoclasts (including those influenced by Islam) argued that icon veneration was idolatry and contrary to the Bible.

The Holy Fathers of the VII Ecumenical Council, based on the church experience of previous centuries, formulated...