The Jubilee Year 2025 is slowly getting underway. Important dates are approaching, and the commemoration of the Council of Nicaea is at its peak. Only the Roman Catholic Church has reason to celebrate. For the “rest” of humanity, however, these once far-reaching events in history should be a reason for an extended funeral procession.
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The Special Jubilee Year 2025 – Council of Nicaea
The year 2025 is a very special year for the Roman Catholic Church. An important anniversary, because the Council of Nicaea took place before 1700. At that time, it was convened by the “Pontifex Maximus,” which was not, as today, the title of the Pope or Bishop of Rome, but rather the attribute of the “adorable” Emperor Constantine. The title of Pontifex was only later transferred to the Bishop of Rome.
At that time, Nicaea, today the town of Iznik in Turkey, a good 80 km from Istanbul (formerly Constantinople). Around 300 bishops gathered in the summer residence provided by Constantine.
Befriedung des römischen Reiches
The emperor’s goal was not to define or emphasize the true Christian faith according to the Gospel, but to settle the disputes within the “Christian” Church. Therefore, the Council of Nicaea was considered the first ecumenical council, not just concerning a local congregation, but the entire Church in its then-extent. For this reason, the desired finding of a common denominator between the differences of opinion of individual bishops was automatically doomed to compromise. Therefore, the Gospel cannot have been considered an absolute standard, because compromises are, by nature, always deviations from it.
Last but not least, Emperor Constantine was also concerned with establishing a stable situation within his empire between the opposing religions of Christianity and the Mithras cult, which was also prevalent in the Roman Empire. In his time, the two were roughly on equal footing. A potential that could well have led to internal unrest. In Alexandria, Egypt, there were additional currents that were particularly opposed to the Bishop of Rome.
Easter Date Takes Center Stage
One of the central points at the Council of Nicaea concerned the establishment of a uniform date for Easter. While in “one corner” of its empire, the Church spent Easter with fasting and suffering, the churches in the “other corner” preferred a boisterous and festive gathering. The result of this compromise was far-reaching. Previously, the Church had oriented the date of Easter according to the Jewish Passover, i.e., the 14th of Nisan. From now on, Easter was to take place uniformly on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the beginning of spring.
With the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1582, the dates of Easter began to diverge again. The Western Schism, the division of the Church into a Roman Catholic and an Orthodox Church, had long since become apparent. The Eastern Churches, in accordance with Pope Gregory XIII, did not adopt the calendar.
However, the year 2025 presents a special feature. The respective Easter dates of the Western and Eastern Churches fall on the same date this year. This is the “Jubilee Year 2025” proclaimed by the Roman Catholic Church.
Mithras cult included
For Emperor Constantine, this agreement to hold Easter on a Sunday was the “golden mean,” as it primarily smoothed out the discrepancy with the Mithras cult widespread in the Roman Empire. In addition to being “Pontifex Maximus,” Constantine was also the earthly representative of the “sol invictus,” the “invincible sun.” In the Mithras cult, he was the representative of the “sun god” Mithras. Mithras had “his” day on the first day of the week, i.e., the day of the sun, or rather, the day of the sun, hence Sunday.
In this way, the important “Christian” date falls on Easter Sunday and therefore also serves to honor the sun god. The tradition of presenting bunnies and colorful Easter eggs at Easter, which continues to this day, is based on the fertility symbolism that originated in ancient Egypt. (Info).
With the Council of Nicaea, the already initiated apostasy from the Gospel was continued and cemented with another major step, especially in the sphere of influence of the Bishop of Rome. The first official rapprochement of the Roman Catholic Church with the Mithras cult (Info).
Next Wave of Apostasy
The Church of Rome set further milestones in its apostasy from Christianity after the end of the Western Roman Empire in 476. Pagan traditions of the emerging Germanic kingdoms were largely adopted to facilitate the respective princes’ submission to the Bishop of Rome. The Merovingian and Frankish king Clovis was Rome’s most loyal vassal at this point.
Clovis used his military power to eradicate the recalcitrant principalities of the Vandals, Heruli, and Ostrogoths. The latter still maintained a foothold in Rome until 538, but were ultimately annihilated. From this point on, the Bishop of Rome, then Vigilius, had free rein both ecclesiastically and politically, ultimately leading to what is now known as the “Dark Ages.”.
Hypocrisy at a high level
So wird heute das Konzil in Nicäa von der Kirche Roms natürlich als ein fundamental wichtiges Ereignis gefeiert. Im Jahr 2025 das 1700te Jubiläum. Ein Anlass zum Frieden durch Einheit, so die Jubeltöne des jesuitischen Magazins “America – The Jesuit Review” (Source). The Council of Nicaea is also a beacon of hope for the future, the homage states. Such unity applies to the Church of Rome as well as to the Orthodox and Protestants. Pope Francis called the year 2025 a “year of grace, an opportunity for all Christians who profess the same creed and believe in the same God.”
The Council of Nicaea is an example of how a humanity riddled with conflict and divided by religion can find unity, according to the Jesuit magazine.
These words are not without hypocrisy. While the Church of Rome emphasizes that it should not and does not want to impose the Catholic faith on pagans (Thomas Aquinas), any threat to the unity of the Church must be countered at all costs, even with violence. Many once-existing peoples and groups, such as the Huguenots, Albigensians, Waldensians, and other unmentioned peoples who came in the way of the Crusades on the route between the Frankish Empire and Jerusalem, had to experience firsthand the “love of Rome’s unity.”
No reason to celebrate
Is the “Jubilee Year 2025” also a reason for extensive celebration on the occasion of the Council of Nicaea? Not at all. Rather, the Church of Rome is celebrating itself, and you are the very cause of its continued unfortunate activities (Info). Soon, therefore, the following words will be heard:
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Revelation 18:4-5
Bible verses from King James Version (1611)
