Trinity Sunday: Preaching By Our Lives

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 472.

Archpriest Boris Stark (+1996) Jun 3rd, 2012

“Blessed art Thou, O Christ our God, Who hast shown forth the fishermen as supremely wise, by sending down upon them the Holy Spirit, and through them didst draw the world into Thy net. O Lover of mankind, glory be to Thee.”

These words of the festal troparion disclose to us the meaning of today's feast: while being a glorification of the Holy Trinity, it is simultaneously the birthday of the entire Church of Christ.

On the fiftieth day after Pascha, and the tenth day after Christ's Ascension, was the Jewish feast of Pentecost. It was on this day that the harvest came to an end among the Jews. In celebration of this event, they brought offerings of thanksgiving to God from the fruits of the earth.