OL XIV 2010
"The Councils of the Church"
Archbishop Cyril Vasil, SJ - "For a canonist, the study of the first common councils of the undivided Church and particularly that of their canonical norms is an occasion to admire the wisdom and farsightedness of the early Church Fathers who laid the solid foundations of a normative groundwork which remains effective to this day. At the same time, such a study inevitably leads to the question of the prescriptions’ stability and of the possibility, or rather, of the necessity of implementing practical modifications in them as well as the possibility of their renewal and revision."
Archimandrite Robert Taft, SJ - "To put it more concretely, councils were convoked to combat heresies, and heresies are a virus that stimlulate the production of antibodies in the life of the Church, including church councils and the liturgy. The Councils of Nicea I (325) and Constantinople I (381) on the theology of the Trinity and their impact on pneumatology and liturgical doxologies; of Ephesus (431) and the origins of the place of the Mother of God in liturgical commemorations, intercessions, and feasts; of Chalcedon (451) and its tortuous aftermath on Christology; of Nicea II (787) and the cult of icons; are all proof-positive of that."
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- The attendees listen to a plenary session
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- One of the plenary sessions
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- Father George Gallaro incenses during Vespers
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- Archbishop Cyril Vasyl’ serves the Divine Liturgy in the university chapel
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- The attendees at OL XIV North at Seton Hall University gather for a group photo.
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- The speakers at one of the panel discussions during OL XIV North included (L to R) Archimandrite Robert Taft, SJ, Archbishop Cyril Vasil, SJ, Elias Damianakis, and Father George Gallaro.