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DOCTRINE BELIEFS
• We worship God in Trinity, glorifying equally the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is Son of God, begotten of the Father before all ages; that He is truly God, of one essence with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
• We believe that Christ Incarnate is also truly man, like us in all respects except sin.
• We worship the Holy Spirit as Lord and Giver of Life Who proceeds from the Father.
• We honor and venerate the Saints as those who have grown “unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” (Eph. 4:13).
• We ask their intercession before God knowing that they live in Christ and that nothing, not even death, breaks the bond of love we share with them in Christ. Of the saints, the Ever-Virgin Mary, the Theotokos (Gr.: Mother of God), holds a special place as “more honorable than the Cherubim and more glorious beyond compare than the Seraphim” (c.f. Lk. 1:48).
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