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Archive for June, 2011
Sunday of Pentecost celebration
Sunday of Pentecost
June 12, 2011
Matins-Divine Liturgy and the Great Vespers
ON PENTECOST BY SAINT GREGORY PALAMAS
On How the Holy Spirit Was Manifested and Shared Out at Pentecost; Also About Repentance
1. A SHORT while ago, with the strong eyes of faith, we beheld Christ ascending, no less clearly than those accounted worthy to be eye-witnesses, nor are we less favoured than they. “Blessed are they [...]
THE MISSION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
The Holy Spirit was not revealed in the same manner in which the Son was revealed; He remains unapproachable to man. He is however recognized in His divine energies, through the gifts which He bestows upon the faithful. He is “the treasury of good things and the bestower of life”, [...]
SUNDAY OF PENTECOST
After the Saviour’s Ascension into the Heavens, the eleven Apostles and the rest of His disciples, the God-loving women who followed after Him from the beginning, His Mother, the most holy Virgin Mary, and His brethren-all together about 120 souls returned from the Mount of Olives to Jerusalem. Entering into [...]
