Dedicated to St. Jude the Apostle

Come and Experience the Good News of the Holy Orthodox Church and Faith: the Blessed Hope of the Resurrection of the Body and Theosis, which is a Creation-Affirming Spirituality combatting dualism and gnosticism, and which acknowledges that God did and does now work to create and sustain this world through evolution.

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We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and of all things seen and unseen.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds; light of light, very God, of very God begotten, not made, being of one essence with the Father, by Whom all things were created; Who for us and for our salvation and deification came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man. And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered, and was buried. And the third day He rose according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of the Father. And He shall come again in glory to judge both the quick and the dead, and His kingdom shall have no end.

And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life, Who proceedeth from the Father, Who with the Father and Son together is worshipped and glorified, Who spake by the prophets.

In One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

We acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins.

We look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.

We accept and confess the Apostolic and Ecclesiastical Canons, established at the Seven Holy Oecumenical and Provincial Synods, and the other Traditions of the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church, its rules and ordinances; and we likewise accept and understand Holy Scripture in accordance with the interpretation which the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church, our Mother, hath held and doth hold.

We believe and confess that there are many Mysteries of the Church, preeminent among which are Baptism, Chrismation, the Eucharist, Confession, the Priesthood, Marriage, and the Annointing with Oil, instituted by the Lord Christ and His Church, to the end that through participation in them Orthodox Christians work out their salvation and deification and receive blessings from on high.

We believe and confess that in the Divine Liturgy the bread and wine are the true and real Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ our God of which the Faithful partake as Fire cleansing the sickness of sin, which grants remission of sins, unto life eternal.

We believe and confess that it is proper to reverence and invoke the saints who reign on high with Christ, according to the interpretation of the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church; and that their prayers and intercessions avail with the beneficient God unto our salvation. Likewise it is well-pleasing in the sight of God that we should do homage to their relics, glorified through incorruption, as the precious memorials of their virtues.

We acknowledge that the icons of our Savior Christ and of the Ever-Virgin Theotokos and of other saints are worthy to be possessed and honored, not unto idolatry, but that through contemplation thereof we may be incited unto piety, and unto emulation of the deeds of the holy persons represented by those images.

We confess that the prayers of the Faithful, which are offered up to God for the salvation of those who have departed this life in the Faith, are favorably received through the mercy of God.

We believe and confess that power hath been given by our Savior Christ unto the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church to bind and to loose, and that whatsoever by virtue of that power is bound or loosed on earth will be bound or loosed in heaven.

We believe and confess that Foundation, Head, Great High Priest and Chief Shepherd of the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church is our Lord Jesus Christ, and that bishops, priests and teachers are appointed by Him to govern the Church, and that the guide and pilot of this Church is the Holy Spirit.

Whatever the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church believes and teaches, Orthodox Christians also believe and teach, and whatever the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church anathematizes, they also anathematize.

Orthodox Christians promise true obedience unto their life's end, in guidance which is salutary to the person, to their Diocesan Bishop and the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Local Orthodox Church of which they are members, under the presidency of the First Hierarch of the Local Church - as the true Pastors appointed by the Holy Spirit - and to the priests ordained by them.