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Holy Pentecost

Feast of the

Holy Trinity

June 16, 2019

Divine Liturgy Sunday June 16 @ 10am

Vespers Saturday June 15 @ 5pm

In the Church’s annual liturgical cycle, Pentecost is “the last and great day.” It is the celebration by the Church of the coming of the Holy Spirit as the end—the achievement and fulfillment—of the entire history of salvation. For the same reason, however, it is also the celebration of the beginning: it is the “birthday” of the Church as the presence among us of the Holy Spirit, of the new life in Christ, of grace, knowledge, adoption to God and holiness.

This double meaning and double joy is revealed to us, first of all, in the very name of the feast. Pentecost in Greek means fifty, and in the sacred biblical symbolism of numbers, the number fifty symbolizes both the fulness of time and that which is beyond time: the Kingdom of God itself. It symbolizes the fullness of time by its first component: 49, which is the fulness of seven (7 x 7): the number of time. And, it symbolizes that which is beyond time by its second component: 49 + 1, this one being the new day, the “day without evening” of God’s eternal Kingdom.

With the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Christ’s disciples, the time of salvation, the Divine work of redemption has been completed, the fulness revealed, all gifts bestowed: it belongs to us now to “appropriate” these gifts, to be that which we have become in Christ: participants and citizens of His Kingdom.

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Fr. Lawrence Gaudreau

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June 02, 2019	"We are active participants in our salvation"
May 26, 2019	"Make Christ present in the world"
May 19, 2019	God's Feeling, Nature, and Power is the Church
May 12, 2019	The Apostle to the Apostles
May 5, 2019	We are called to bring the message to the world
April 21, 2019	Only through Jesus Christ can we have salvation
April 20, 2019	I am the Resurrection and the Life
April 14, 2019	St. Mary of Egypt: Model of Repentence
April 7, 2019	What is repentence
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