LEICESTER, United Kingdom – British Christian leaders, including Cardinal Vincent Nichols, marked the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea as a “breath of hope” for the Church.
The first Ecumenical Council took place in 325, and went against the Arian heresy, which denied the true divinity of Jesus Christ.
This is why the Nicene Creed is read every Sunday at Mass – saying Jesus is “God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father.”
A statement from the presidents of Churches Together in England – which includes the Catholic Church, the Free Churches Group, the Lutheran Church, the Orthodox Church, the Church of England, and the Pentecostal Church – said in a world “suffering because of our fallen nature” the churches are given a breath of hope when it reflects “on the sacred words of the confession of our common Christian faith and recall that we still share our belief in the Son of God, Jesus the Christ.”
