Pentecost 2023

May 28, 2023 Editor 0 Comments

On this Fiftieth Day after Pascha we beg for the gifts of the Holy Spirit just as Jesus Christ “filled the Fishermen with Wisdom by sending down the Holy Spirit” catching the whole world! A prayer of the Divine Liturgy captures a particular point of this feast: O Heavenly King, Comforter, Spirit of Truth, Who …

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Green for Pentecost

May 27, 2023 Editor 0 Comments

The tradition of wearing green on the Solemn feast of Pentecost —the coming of the Holy Spirit— is seen as a Slavic tradition, but wearing green is one to adopt and relish because it is a symbol of new life in the Holy Trinity. Green is the color of new life and the suppleness of …

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The Holy Prophet Joel

October 19, 2022 Editor 0 Comments

We celebrate the memory / of Your prophet Joel, O Lord; / through him we entreat You, / save our souls. (troparion) Today, the Byzantine Church commemorates the holy prophet Joel. He lived in the 9th century B.C. and predicted the desolation of Jerusalem AND he who announced the great day of the Lord and …

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Pentecost green

June 2, 2022 Editor 0 Comments

Reminder – Pentecost is this Sunday (new calendar): Byzantines, remember to wear the green. The tradition of wearing green on Pentecost is mostly a Slavic tradition, but it is one that we all can embrace because of green being a symbol of new life in the Holy Trinity. Our celebration of Pentecost –the coming of …

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5th Sunday after Pentecost

June 27, 2021 Editor 0 Comments

St. Ignatius of Antioch taught, “It is better for a man to be silent and be a Christian than to talk and not be one.… Men believe with the heart and confess with the mouth, the one unto righteousness, the other unto salvation. It is good to teach, if the teacher also does what he …

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Third Sunday after Pentecost

June 13, 2021 Editor 0 Comments

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life.” Only after Jesus has shown the hurt to be unspeakable, then and not before does he make the instruction stricter. He not only asks us to cast away what we have but also forbids us to take thought even for the food we need, saying, …

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Pentecost 2021

May 23, 2021 Editor 0 Comments

Pentecost is the fiftieth day, “the last and greatest day of the feast.” In the New Testament, this story is told only in the Acts of the Holy Apostles (Acts 2:1-12). On this day, the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples in the form , “as of fire” and they were filled with the Holy …

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