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Trinity Day in 2019 is celebrated on June 16. “Komsomolskaya Pravda” decided to tell all the most interesting things about the holiday, symbolizing the trinity of God
Daria Ivashkina Trinity is one of the twelve main Orthodox holidays. Sometimes it is also called the day of the descent of the Holy Spirit. From this name it is immediately clear what event this celebration is associated with. Actually, with the descent to earth of the Holy Spirit described in the Bible, which was foreshadowed by Jesus Christ and which showed and at the same time proved the trinity of God, that is, the existence of three Persons of one essentially God - the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
The Trinity also has a third name - Pentecost. This name indicates the date of celebration - the fiftieth day after Easter, to which, as you know, many Christian celebrations are tied.
There is no exact date for Bright Resurrection, therefore Trinity is celebrated every year at different times. For example, in 2019, the Orthodox celebrated Easter on April 28; if you count 50 days from this date, you get June 16 - this will be the Day of the Holy Trinity.
As for Catholics, Trinity does not coincide with Pentecost (the day of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles) and is celebrated a week later. However, in 2019, the Catholic Trinity will be celebrated on June 23.
Story It is believed that the apostles, who are also called the disciples of Jesus Christ, decided to establish a holiday in honor of the Holy Trinity. In this way, they wanted to consolidate in people’s memory the event that occurred on the fiftieth day after the Resurrection of the Lord. According to biblical legends, on that day the Holy Spirit descended on these same apostles, who by that time had already been praying for fifty days in a row in the Zion Upper Room, which later became the first Christian temple.
It is worth noting that after the descent of the Holy Spirit, the apostles noticed some changes: they suddenly learned to heal and prophesy. At the same time, they also spoke in different languages: the knowledge of languages was given to them in order to carry the Word of God throughout the world. After this, the disciples of Christ went to different parts of the world to tell all the inhabitants of the planet about the life of the Lord and his painful death for the sins of all mankind.
And the official establishment of such a holiday as the Trinity occurred in 381, when the Second Ecumenical Council was convened in Constantinople, at which the doctrine of the Trinity was formulated. It was then that the dogma of the equality and consubstantiality of all Divine persons was established.
But our Slavic ancestors began to celebrate the Trinity much later - only 300 years after the baptism of Rus', that is, at the end of the 13th - beginning of the 14th centuries.
Traditions Since Trinity is a religious holiday, naturally, this day is never complete without a service in the church, which, according to tradition, includes the Divine Liturgy and Great Vespers.
Moreover, it is customary to decorate churches on Trinity Day with greenery: freshly cut grass is usually placed on the floor, and icons are decorated with spring flowers and young tree branches. On this day, many believers bring several birch branches with them to church to consecrate them and then place them in their homes (usually consecrated branches were placed near icons). It is believed that in this way you can protect your home and yourself from all evil. In general, the birch tree is the main attribute of the holiday; its branches symbolize the power of the Holy Spirit.
Another tradition of Trinity Day is to arrange a feast and invite all relatives, friends and loved ones to the celebration. By the way, since Pentecost is not a fast day, housewives have the opportunity to demonstrate all their culinary skills and delight their guests with a wide variety of treats. However, the traditional dish for Trinity Sunday was and remains a loaf.
Previously, on the Day of the Holy Trinity, real folk festivities were organized - in the late afternoon, round dances, singing songs and dancing began in all villages. It is worth noting that detailed fun on Trinity Day has not lost its popularity to this day.
In addition, it has always been customary to get married on Trinity Day. So, it was believed that if you woo on Pentecost and have a wedding on Intercession - the day when, according to our ancestors, autumn meets winter, then a happy life together is guaranteed.
There are also a number of other traditions associated with preparation for Trinity. For example, a couple of days before the holiday, believers usually do a thorough cleaning of the house. The fact is that on the Day of the Holy Trinity itself you cannot clean, sew or wash, in other words, do any housework. And on Parents' Saturday - the day before Trinity - it is customary to visit cemeteries and remember the dead.
The Orthodox church calendar is the schedule according to which the Church lives, services are performed, and fasting begins. There are twelve main holidays in the Church, which are called the Twelves. And - one of them. Easter is considered the main thing; it is not even one of the twelve. Easter is a “holiday holiday” - an event that determines church life for a good third of the year. Moreover, the date of several twelve holidays, including Trinity, can be determined precisely by Easter.
Easter is a moving holiday, that is, it happens at different times every year. The date of Easter is difficult to calculate, and the timing of a number of other important events depends on it.
Before Easter, Christians all over the world fast. For the Orthodox, this is Great Lent, which begins seven weeks before the Holy Resurrection of Christ. Before Lent there are several special weeks for preparation: a week about Zacchaeus, a week with reading about the Publican and the Pharisee, a week dedicated to the Prodigal Son, a week about the Last Judgment (also known as Maslenitsa).
That is, preparation for Easter begins 13 weeks in advance. After Easter there is a series of holidays that are associated with it. This is St. Thomas week, and the week of the Myrrh-Bearing Women, Ascension, Trinity. What date is Trinity in a particular year depends on what date Easter falls on.
Trinity Sunday occurs on the fiftieth day after Easter, which is why it is also called Pentecost.
What date is Trinity is easy to calculate, knowing the date of Easter or the beginning of Lent. 50 days must be added to the date of Easter, and 14 weeks to the day of the beginning of Great Lent. Orthodox publishing houses often print small Easter calendars, which indicate what day Easter will be and what date Trinity will be for a decade in advance.
One week after the Feast of Pentecost it begins and always ends on July 12, the day of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.
Easter and, therefore, Trinity can be early and late, and the beginning of Peter's Lent can also be early and late. Since this fast always ends on July 12, its duration depends on what date the Trinity holiday is. Petrovka, that is, not strict, but its duration is different each time: from two weeks to six.
Any fast imposes significant restrictions on everyone who observes it. Great Lent involves not only giving up, but also limiting entertainment and frequent attendance at religious services. Some people don’t watch TV during Lent, don’t go to the theater or visit people. Life changes dramatically during Lent, so Orthodox Christians will find out with great interest the date of Easter for next year or what date Trinity is. For example, what date is Trinity 2013? We need to open Easter and find out that Easter in 2013 is very late, and Trinity falls on June 23. This means that Lent will begin late this year, and indeed, the beginning of Lent fell on March 15th. Everyone celebrated March 8th calmly and without worries, and Easter fell on which was also very convenient. Petrov's fast was short, only two weeks.
Some are surprised that the Orthodox use such an indefinite, different calendar every time. But besides theological justifications, there are other positive aspects to such “instability.” Every year is different, each year is different, and that’s not a bad thing.
Trinity is considered a holiday of the earth. On this day it was forbidden to dig or disturb it in any way. Trinity is considered a green holiday and all houses were decorated with green branches and flowers. The main role in decoration was given to birch.
On Trinity Day, they collected herbs and flowers and took them to the church for their consecration. These herbs were believed to be beneficial and cure various diseases. At the same time, it is advisable to shed a few tears on the flower during the service. Even Pushkin has the lines:
"Touchingly at the dawn's beam
They shed three tears"
The holiday itself was also celebrated outdoors. In the villages, loaves were baked and invited guests were decorated with flower wreaths. The girls danced in circles, and the boys chose future brides.
When to celebrate, celebrate Trinity (date in the year) 2020...
The Feast of the Trinity (Holy Trinity Day) is celebrated 50 days after Easter. Hence the other name Pentecost (Greek: Πεντηκοστή). As you remember, Easter has a floating date, which means the date of the holiday - Trinity also changes in the year, depending on Easter. In order for you not to calculate the dates of the Trinity in the years closest to us, we did it for you and presented this information in a table. Which we invite you to familiarize yourself with.
| Year | Trinity date |
| 2020 | June 7 |
| 2021 | June 20 |
| 2022 | 12 June |
| 2023 | June 4 |
| 2024 | June 23 |
| 2025 | June 8 |
| 2026 | May 31 |
| 2027 | June 20 |
| 2028 | June 4 |
| 2029 | May 27 |
| 2030 | June 16 |
The dates given in the table refer to Christian Easter, that is, they are correct for Trinity celebrated by the Christian church.
To better understand when Trinity is celebrated, in relation to the religious holidays dependent on Easter, take a look at the table below...
Chronology of holidays associated with Easter (Resurrection of Christ). Easter is the main religious holiday, so everything is tied around it.
| Maslenitsa | Lent (49 days) | EASTER (Resurrection of Christ) (first Sunday of spring, after the first full moon) |
9 days | Radonitsa | x | Trinity | |||||||
| x | Forgiveness Sunday (burning an effigy) |
x | Palm Sunday (Christ's entry into Jerusalem) |
Holy Week (last 7 days of Lent) | 50 days (on the 40th day of ascension) |
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| Great Wednesday (betrayal of Judas) |
Maundy Thursday | Good Friday (crucifixion of Christ) |
Holy Saturday (blessing of Easter food) |
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That is, Trinity is the 50th day after Easter. And here it becomes clear that every year Trinity will be on different dates! Look at the information above and now you know when Trinity Sunday will be this year!
Trinity is one of the greatest celebrations in Orthodoxy, which is celebrated among the people and recognized in the church. This is the second most important holiday after Easter, and it is scheduled for the fiftieth day after Easter Sunday. The Bible says that on this day the Holy Spirit descended from heaven, also simultaneously by the Father and the Son, to the twelve apostles and proved the unity of God. It was then that God gave the blessing to the apostles to build a church. This day is considered the founding day of the church.
There is also a legend that on the fiftieth day after leaving Egypt (Old Testament Passover), Moses on Mount Sinai told Israel God's law, which everyone must fulfill. This was precisely the starting point in the development of the Old Testament church. Since then, every year Jews have celebrated the so-called Shavuot, that is, Pentecost. Also on this day, Israel celebrates the festival of the first harvest and fruits. However, Shavuot is considered more important and significant, and is one of the three holiest Jewish holidays.
Pentecost always falls at a time when trees and flowers are in bloom. Therefore, for the holiday, temples and houses are decorated with branches with leaves that smell and remind of the holiday. Before Trinity, Saturday is held in churches when they commemorate people who died of their own free will and those who drowned and disappeared. On the holiday, clergy dress in festive attire. The grass is taken from the temple, dried, and then used for a year as a talisman against the evil eye and ill-wishers.
Trinity among the Slavs
As you know, the Slavic people did not always profess Christianity, and for many centuries their official religion was paganism. That is why, even today, customs and traditions that belong more to the Slavic culture have been preserved.
Even before the church began to celebrate Trinity, this day was considered the border between spring and summer. On this day it was customary to sing songs, dance, have fun, and dance in circles. Houses were decorated with greenery, which was then used as medicinal herbs and tinctures. It was believed that it was on this holiday that evil spirits came to earth in the form of mermaids and mawoks.
Before the baptism of Rus', there was the holiday of Semik or Triglav, that is, the Slavic Trinity. According to pagan teaching, there are three Deities who rule humanity - Svarog, Perun, Svyatovit or Svyatozhich. The first, in their opinion, created the Universe, the second is a defender of the truth, moreover, it was Perun that all the warriors revered in a special way and considered him their patron. The third, Svyatozhich, is the keeper of light and sky, it is he who fills humanity with the energy of life.
As we have already mentioned, another name for the Slavic Trinity is Semik, which translated means Green Week. This, one might say, is the beginning of the summer holidays, which, as always in Rus', were accompanied by loud festivities, peculiar rituals, and, of course, girls’ fortune telling.
Traditions and customs of the Trinity in Rus'
Like many holidays, this one began with cleaning. Housewives, a day or two before Trinity, began general cleaning in the house and in the yard. After this, the women decorated the hut and yard with everything that summer had bestowed on the earth, namely green plants. According to our ancestors, young plants symbolize prosperity, wealth and continuation of life.
And on Trinity Day, from the very morning the whole family hurried to the temple. After all, churches held a festive service on this day. After the temple, everyone went home and had a festive dinner. As usual, our ancestors visited each other to congratulate each other, give gifts and communicate together.
Swimming in rivers and lakes was prohibited all week. After all, our ancestors believed that during this period you could meet a mermaid who would invite you to come to her, and not return, because mermaids could tickle you to death.
Towards evening, all the people gathered in the villages for a celebration. They held round dances, sang songs, danced, and performed rituals. Also, fairs were often held for the whole week, where one could also find a lot of entertainment. Of course, at this time the young people looked closely at each other and got to know each other.
Rituals and rituals for Trinity
The celebration of Trinity lasts three days. IN first day of Trinity, which is also called Green Sunday, people should be very careful and careful. It is believed that mythical creatures such as mermaids, Mavkas and other evil spirits are walking around. Therefore, it is customary to decorate your homes with fragrant herbs, and icons with birch branches. A young birch tree is a symbol of blossoming nature in all its glory. And the color green is associated with cleansing, renewal and life-giving power. It’s not for nothing that nature “puts on” a beautiful green dress on this day.
They celebrated Trinity in forests, fields, and gardens. They sang songs and played fun games. On this day, unmarried girls used their own woven wreaths to tell fortunes, into which they wove flowers fragrant with a delicate aroma and striking in their beauty. They threw wreaths into the water and sang amazingly heartfelt songs; if the wreaths matched, then be a young bride this year. Old-timers say that on a festive night one will have prophetic dreams, which are usually given special significance. They also visited cemeteries and commemorated the dead, leaving refreshments. Towards evening, a real party began, where people were entertained by buffoons.
On second day of Trinity, which is called Clergy Monday, people attended church. After the service, the clergy walked through the fields and prayed, asking the Lord to protect the harvest.
The third day of Trinity is called God-spirited day. They chose the most beautiful girl, dressed her up beyond recognition - with multi-colored ribbons and matchless wreaths, and dressed her in festive clothes. After that, they took her around the yards, and the owners generously presented her with treats. They also sanctified the water in wells in order to cleanse it of the unclean spirit.
Each Slavic holiday is literally imbued with different rites and rituals. Well, let's take a closer look at a few of them:
As we have already mentioned, on this day there was a belief that mermaids wake up on Trinity. Therefore, in order to protect themselves from it, several rituals were performed in the villages. In some villages, women ran around the entire village with a broom at nightfall. And in other villages they dressed the girl as a mermaid, and then drove her out into the field and threw her into the grain crop, after which they ran home. Another ritual associated with the expulsion of the mermaid was carried out as follows. In advance, the whole village created a stuffed mermaid, and in the evening during the festivities they danced around it. Then everyone was divided into two teams, one of which was trying to take the mermaid from the enemy. After this, the stuffed animal was taken to the field, torn into small pieces and scattered across the field.
In addition to mermaids, according to the Slavs, on this day the merman also woke up, who also needed to be scared away. To do this, the entire village lit bonfires along the shore, danced in circles and sang songs loudly. The next morning it was believed that all evil spirits had been driven away, so the people with a clear conscience ran to the river from the very morning to swim.
Women who had young children saved a piece of Trinity pie for their wedding. When someone got married, the mother handed this biscuit to the newlyweds, in the hope that it would be their amulet and would bring peace, happiness, wealth and joy to the house, and also protect them from illness and adversity.
Particular attention should be paid to decorating the house, since ordinary branches and bouquets were not suitable. It is believed that on this day there must be branches of maple, birch, oak and rowan in the house - after all, they are the ones who can protect from evil people, and also bestow strength, health and energy to overcome obstacles. A week later, all the plants were burned at the stake.
It was also customary to collect various herbs on Trinity Day, because according to our ancestors, they had special powers. All this was dried and left in case someone in the house got sick. An obligatory ritual on Trinity Sunday was the throwing of wreaths along the river. This was a kind of fortune telling for Trinity - in this way the girls tried to find out their fate for the next year.
In order to escape from drought and crop failure, on this day it was customary to water the flowers and branches with which they stood in the temple with their tears. The girls deliberately tried to cry so that the drops would fall on the flowers, after which they were stored for a whole year.
Signs for Trinity
They tried not to schedule a wedding for this day; it was believed that nothing good would await such a family. But matchmaking and acquaintance on this day is a good sign. Such a marriage will be strong and happy.
We also tried on Trinity Sunday not to think about bad things, to be jealous and angry at someone - this is a bad sign and it will not lead to anything good.
Many of us have heard that if it rains on this day, it means tears for the dead. However, in addition to this sign, there was another one, which said that if it rains on this day, then there will be a lot of mushrooms all year, a good harvest and wonderful weather.
Women also tried to redo all their work before Trinity Day, since it was believed that on this day it was forbidden to sew, spin, whitewash, bake pies and work in the garden.
If, after three days, the birch branches with which the house was decorated were fresh and had not withered, then everyone was waiting for wet haymaking.
Many believed that in order to scare away evil spirits and attract wealth and prosperity to the village, it was necessary to go to the cemetery and sweep the graves.
It was a very bad sign if it was hot on Trinity Sunday. This means the whole summer will be dry and, accordingly, a poor harvest.
And the dew collected on Trinity Sunday, according to Slavic women, has a special power that can heal and give strength.
How is Trinity celebrated today?
Despite the importance of the holiday, many traditions have been forgotten. Few people attach any importance to the Trinity, especially in big cities. And if you conduct a survey “Why is Trinity celebrated and what is its meaning?”, most people will not be able to answer anything specific. It’s a pity, because this is our history and it should be remembered and honored, adhering to traditions.
But in the villages they prepare for the holiday in advance. They carefully clean and decorate their homes with beautiful flowers and herbs collected at dawn, which intoxicate with their delicate aroma, believing that evil spirits will not be able to enter the house. Housewives prepare culinary delights for households and guests. And after preparations they attend church. Then they sit down at the festive tables, which they take outside or go into nature. And in the evening they attend folk festivals, taking active part in various competitions.
The Holy Trinity is a theological term reflecting the Christian doctrine of Trinitarianism. This is one of the most important concepts of Orthodoxy.
The dogma of the Holy Trinity is the foundation of the Christian religion.
God is one in essence, but trinity in persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the Trinity is consubstantial and indivisible.
The word “Trinity” itself, of non-biblical origin, was introduced into the Christian lexicon in the second half of the 2nd century by Theophilus of Antioch. The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is given in Christian Revelation.
The dogma of the Holy Trinity is incomprehensible, it is a mysterious dogma, incomprehensible at the level of reason. For the human mind, the doctrine of the Holy Trinity is contradictory, because it is a mystery that cannot be expressed rationally.
It is no coincidence that Fr. Pavel Florensky called the dogma of the Holy Trinity “a cross for human thought.” In order to accept the dogma of the Most Holy Trinity, the sinful human mind must reject its claims to the ability to know everything and rationally explain, that is, in order to understand the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity, it is necessary to reject its understanding.
The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is comprehended, and only partially, in the experience of spiritual life. This comprehension is always associated with ascetic feat. V.N. Lossky says: “The apophatic ascent is an ascent to Golgotha, therefore no speculative philosophy could ever rise to the mystery of the Holy Trinity.”
The Trinity distinguishes Christianity from all other monotheistic religions: Judaism, Islam. The doctrine of the Trinity is the basis of all Christian faith and moral teaching, for example, the doctrine of God the Savior, God the Sanctifier, etc. V.N. Lossky said that the doctrine of the Trinity is “not only the basis, but also the highest goal of theology, for ... to know the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity in its fullness means to enter into Divine life, into the very life of the Most Holy Trinity.”
The doctrine of the Triune God comes down to three points:
1) God is trinity and trinity consists in the fact that in God there are Three Persons (hypostases): Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
2) Each Person of the Holy Trinity is God, but They are not three Gods, but are one Divine being.
3) All three Persons differ in personal or hypostatic properties.
The Holy Fathers, in order to somehow bring the doctrine of the Holy Trinity closer to the perception of man, used various kinds of analogies borrowed from the created world.
For example, the sun and the light and heat emanating from it. A source of water, a spring coming from it, and, in fact, a stream or river. Some see an analogy in the structure of the human mind (St. Ignatius Brianchaninov. Ascetic experiences): “Our mind, word and spirit, by the simultaneity of their beginning and by their mutual relationships, serve as the image of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.”
However, all these analogies are very imperfect. If we take the first analogy - the sun, outgoing rays and heat - then this analogy presupposes some temporary process. If we take the second analogy - a source of water, a spring and a stream, then they differ only in our imagination, but in reality they are a single water element. As for the analogy associated with the abilities of the human mind, it can only be an analogy of the image of the Revelation of the Most Holy Trinity in the world, but not of intra-Trinity existence. Moreover, all these analogies place unity above trinity.
Saint Basil the Great considered the rainbow to be the most perfect analogy borrowed from the created world, because “the same light is both continuous in itself and multi-colored.” “And in the multicoloredness a single face is revealed - there is no middle and no transition between colors. It is not visible where the rays demarcate. We clearly see the difference, but we cannot measure the distances. And together, the multicolored rays form a single white one. The one essence reveals itself in a multi-colored radiance.”
A Brief History of the Dogma of the Holy Trinity
Christians have always believed that God is one in essence, but trinity in persons, but the dogmatic teaching about the Holy Trinity itself was created gradually, usually in connection with the emergence of various kinds of heretical errors. The doctrine of the Trinity in Christianity has always been connected with the doctrine of Christ, with the doctrine of the Incarnation. Trinitarian heresies and trinitarian disputes had a Christological basis.
In fact, the doctrine of the Trinity became possible thanks to the Incarnation. As the troparion of Epiphany says, in Christ “Trinitarian worship appears.” The teaching about Christ is “a stumbling block to the Jews, and foolishness to the Greeks” (1 Cor. 1:23). Also, the doctrine of the Trinity is a stumbling block for both “strict” Jewish monotheism and Hellenic polytheism. Therefore, all attempts to rationally comprehend the mystery of the Holy Trinity led to errors of either a Jewish or Hellenic nature.
The first dissolved the Persons of the Trinity in a single nature, for example, the Sabellians, while others reduced the Trinity to three unequal beings (Arians). The condemnation of Arianism occurred in 325 at the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. The main act of this Council was the compilation of the Nicene Creed, into which non-biblical terms were introduced, among which the term “omousios” - “consubstantial” - played a special role in the Trinitarian disputes of the 4th century.
To reveal the true meaning of the term "omousios" it took enormous efforts of the great Cappadocians: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and Gregory of Nyssa.
The great Cappadocians, primarily Basil the Great, strictly distinguished the concepts of “essence” and “hypostasis.” The non-beginning of being and Divine dignity belong equally to all three hypostases. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are its manifestations in Persons, each of which possesses the fullness of the divine essence and is in inextricable unity with it. The Hypostases differ from each other only in their personal (hypostatic) properties.
In addition, the Cappadocians actually identified (primarily the two Gregory: Nazianzen and Nyssa) the concept of “hypostasis” and “person”. “Face” in the theology and philosophy of that time was a term that belonged not to the ontological, but to the descriptive plane, that is, a face could be called the mask of an actor or the legal role that a person performed.
By identifying “person” and “hypostasis” in trinitarian theology, the Cappadocians thereby transferred this term from the descriptive plane to the ontological plane. The consequence of this identification was, in essence, the emergence of a new concept that the ancient world did not know: this term is “personality”. The Cappadocians managed to reconcile the abstractness of Greek philosophical thought with the biblical idea of a personal Deity.
Distinction of Divine Persons by Hypostatic Properties
According to the teaching, Hypostases are Personalities, and not impersonal forces. Moreover, the Hypostases have a single nature. Naturally the question arises, how to distinguish them?
All divine properties relate to a common nature; they are characteristic of all three Hypostases and therefore cannot express the differences of the Divine Persons by themselves. It is impossible to give an absolute definition of each Hypostasis using one of the Divine names.
One of the features of personal existence is that personality is unique and inimitable, and therefore, it cannot be defined, it cannot be subsumed under a certain concept, since the concept always generalizes; impossible to bring to a common denominator. Therefore, a person can only be perceived through his relationship to other individuals.
This is exactly what we see in, where the idea of Divine Persons is based on the relationships that exist between them.
Starting approximately from the end of the 4th century, we can talk about generally accepted terminology, according to which hypostatic properties are expressed in the following terms: in the Father - ungeneracy, in the Son - birth (from the Father), and procession (from the Father) in the Holy Spirit. Personal properties are incommunicable properties, eternally remaining unchanged, exclusively belonging to one or another of the Divine Persons. Thanks to these properties, Persons differ from each other, and we recognize them as special Hypostases.
At the same time, distinguishing three Hypostases in God, we confess the Trinity to be consubstantial and indivisible. Consubstantial means that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three independent Divine Persons, possessing all divine perfections, but these are not three special separate beings, not three Gods, but One God. They have a single and indivisible Divine nature. Each of the Persons of the Trinity possesses the divine nature perfectly and completely.
Trinity Day is celebrated on the fiftieth day after Easter, which is why it is also called Pentecost. The Feast of Pentecost, or the Day of the Holy Trinity, went like this. On the tenth day after the Ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ, on the day of the Jewish holiday of the first harvest, when the disciples and the Virgin Mary were with them in the Zion Upper Room, at the third hour of the day a strong noise was heard in the air, as if during a storm. Bright, flickering tongues of fire appeared in the air. It was not a material fire - it was of the same nature as the Holy Fire, which descends annually in Jerusalem on Easter; it shone without burning. Rushing over the heads of the apostles, tongues of fire descended on them and laid them to rest. Immediately, along with the external phenomenon, the internal one also happened, which took place in: “all were filled with the Holy Spirit.” “Both the Mother of God and the apostles felt at that moment an extraordinary power acting in them. Simply and directly, they were given from above a new grace-filled gift of the verb - they spoke in languages that they did not know before. This was the gift needed to preach the Gospel throughout the world.
In memory of this event, the Feast of Pentecost is also called the day of the descent of the Holy Spirit, as well as the day of the Holy Trinity: in the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, who came from God the Father according to the promise of God the Son, the mystery of the unity of the Holy Trinity was revealed. This day received the name Pentecost not only in memory of the ancient holiday, but also because this event occurred on the fiftieth day after Christian Easter. Just as the Passover of Christ replaced the ancient Jewish holiday, so Pentecost laid the foundation of the Church of Christ as a union in the Spirit on earth.
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