In his sermon at the Holy Liturgy in the Church of St. Nicholas in the Old Town, the hierarchal vicar of Kotor-Tivat, parish priest of Kotor, archpriest-creator Nemanja Krivokapić, spoke about the importance of the true faith, as professed by Saint Cyril of Alexandria, whom we celebrate today as one of the saints who transmitted to us pure, precise teaching, as God left us.

"In this period, when we celebrated the greatest church holidays of Easter and Ascension, we remembered all the saving events that Christ did for our salvation, when we celebrated Pentecost, when our Church was established by the Holy Spirit, the place where our salvation will be further realized.
Christ did what he before Him was, that is, what we humans could not do. He managed to defeat death and give us humans the opportunity to overcome death and gain eternal life”, said Fr. Nemanja.
The Church, he continued, is a place of communion between God and humans, and fasting, like the Petrine fast, is a preparation for something more important, which is communion, that is, the encounter of us humans with God.
“In today’s Gospel, we hear how Christ called his disciples, the apostles, not because the One who created the world needed help, but because we needed to have witnesses of the important and wonderful words spoken by Christ.
The apostles were witnesses of all the events that Christ himself did. They wrote down those saving words that we read today, both through the Gospel and through the Holy Scriptures, spreading them throughout the world”, said Fr. Nemanja

, adding that when Christ ascended to heaven, it was important for someone to continue what he was talking about and spread it throughout the world.
This was done by the apostles, which is why the Church is still called apostolic.

“That is why we are fasting the Apostles' Fast today, because they are the ones on whom our Church is founded,” he said further, adding that the apostles, after they moved to the Kingdom of God, handed down their teachings to the holy fathers (the bishops who continued to lead the Church, the fathers who passed on that teaching as it was given to us by Christ himself). It is extremely important that, when we believe in God, we believe as we should believe. Not just any way, especially when today we are witnesses that there are many churches, or rather those who call themselves churches. And, all that is beautiful, that they believe in God, do good deeds, but God himself left it to us how we should believe,” said Fr. Nemanja.

He emphasized that today we celebrate one of the many saints who passed on to us precisely that pure, precise teaching, the kind that God left us, and that is Saint Cyril of Alexandria.
“In his time, he fought to prevent Orthodox teaching from being corrupted. He lived in the 4th and 5th centuries, when the Church fought against the heresy called Monophysitism, according to which Christ has only one, Divine nature,” said Fr. Nemanja.
He added that our Orthodox Church teaches that God is one and that He has two natures, divine and human.
“Christ was true God and true man. Therefore, He has a full divine and a full human nature, and therefore a will,” said Fr. Nemanja, saying that Monophysitism diminished the salvific significance of everything Christ did.

If He were only God, he continued, then the Mystery of the Incarnation would have no meaning, because God became man so that we humans could also participate in salvation.

"When He was crucified on the cross and when He was resurrected, He was true God and true man, and that is what is salvific for us people, that we, our human nature, also participated in that salvific event. That is why Saint Cyril, by teaching Orthodoxy, maintained the full faith that the apostles maintained when they continued to speak what Christ spoke. That is why Saint Cyril of Alexandria is the successor, not only of the apostles, but also of Christ Himself, and all of us who believe correctly, accurately, are the successors of all these holy fathers. That is why at every liturgy we read the Creed, a summary of accurate Orthodoxy and Orthodox teaching. It must be read correctly because it is a summary of what we believe. Therefore, all of us who come to the liturgy, who receive communion, participate in the divine service, read the Creed, we are all successors of those fathers who passed on Orthodox teaching to us from "The apostles and therefore from Christ himself. May God, through the prayers of Saint Cyril, whom we celebrate today, strengthen us in the faith that He has left us, amen," said Father Nemanja.