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June 24, 2024, 14:30 Tatyana Timuka, Chief Editor of the Baltic Bureau of the Academy of Sciences
Good day, my dears! I sincerely congratulate you in your vacation!
TODAY the Orthodox Church celebrates the Day of the Holy Spirit!
Holy Pentecost Day!
BIRTHDAY OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST!
Each believer is aware of that every little thing we do that’s good and vivid in our religious life is named to at least one ACQUISITION (ACQUISITION) OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!
THE POWER OF GOD TO SAVE OUR SOUL!
In accordance with the instructing of the Church, the Holy Spirit is the Third Individual of the Holy Trinity, that’s, He possesses the identical Divine essence as God the Father and God the Son. On this regard, because the Holy Fathers train, believers should render Him the identical worship and glorification as the primary two Individuals of the Trinity.
The Church established the Feast of the Holy Spirit “for the sake of the greatness of the Most Holy and Life-Giving Spirit, for He’s one (of) the Holy and Life-Giving Trinity” in opposition to these heresies that belittled the Holy Spirit of their instructing.
The Orthodox Church additionally expressed its religion within the Divinity of the Holy Spirit within the Creed: “I consider… within the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Life-Giver, Who proceeds from the Father, Who with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, Who spoke via the prophets.”
The Holy Spirit is one with the Father and the Son in every little thing, due to this fact He does every little thing with Them, being autocratic, all-powerful and good. By means of Him all knowledge, life, motion is given, He’s the supply of all life. He has every little thing that the Father and the Son have, “besides ungeneration and era,” coming from the one Father. Saint Athanasius says: “The Holy Spirit shouldn’t be created, not created, not begotten, however proceeds from the Father.” However what the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father consists of is meaningless to us, simply because the delivery of the Son is meaningless. Subsequently, the Holy Orthodox Church by no means determined to topic this thriller of the Divine to human reasoning, however at all times confessed it, in accordance with the instructing of our Savior Jesus Christ (John 15:26). The Lord reveals to an individual solely what is important for his salvation, and lots of secrets and techniques stay for us behind an impenetrable veil.
Enriching an individual with religious presents and rising religious fruits in him, the Holy Spirit adorns an individual with various virtues, making him, based on the phrase of Scripture, tree, producing good fruits (Matthew 7:17). Life based on the Holy Spirit is clearly revealed within the fruits of the Spirit, which embrace, within the phrases of the Apostle Paul, “love, pleasure, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, religion, meekness, self-control” (Gal. 5:22-23).
On icons, the Holy Spirit is depicted symbolically – within the type of a dove (descent on the Lord Jesus Christ) or tongues of fireplace (descent on the apostles and the Mom of God).
Prayer to the Holy Spirit:
O Heavenly King,/ Comforter, Spirit of reality,/ Who artwork in every single place current/ and fillest all issues,/ Treasury of fine issues/ and Giver of life,/ come and dwell in us,/ and cleanse us from each impurity,// and save our souls, O Good One.
Flip to the Holy Spirit the Comforter extra typically and the grace and energy of God shall be with you!
Sincerely, your prayer chief, Archpriest Andrey.
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