Today is Pentecost Sunday in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Since we have many people here on Blurt from the Eastern Orthodox Church in Russia and Ukraine I thought it would be nice to celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit together. As brothers and sisters to bring an end to war and destruction.
Orthodox Pentecost is celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Easter and takes place on June 12 this year. For hundreds of years, Orthodox Pentecost has been celebrated with tremendous zeal as an important Christian holiday. Because Easter is calculated differently in the Orthodox and Western churches, the Orthodox church will have a different date than the Western church. On Pentecost Sunday in the Orthodox Church, it is customary to refrain from kneeling during church services from Easter Sunday through Pentecost Sunday. Celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
Come Holy Spirit come. 🕊
Orthodox Pentecost Sunday is the final day of the Easter cycle, which began 92 days earlier on the Orthodox holiday known as Shrove Monday. Pentecost Sunday is the day on which Christians remember the day on which the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles in the shape of fire, as described in ‘ Acts, chapter 2’ of the ‘New Testament.’
Bo yeshua bo…. (Come Jesus Come)
The origins of Pentecost can be traced back to a Jewish harvest festival known as Shavuot. The apostles were enjoying this celebration when they experienced the coming of the Holy Spirit. It sounded like an extremely powerful wind, and it looked like flames protruding from the ground.
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The Holy Spirit granted the apostles the ability to communicate in other tongues, and they immediately began preaching the word of Jesus to the Jews who had traveled to Jerusalem to celebrate the festival of Pentecost. At first, people who were passing by thought that the apostles must have been drunk. However, the Apostle Peter told the crowd that the apostles were filled to the brim with the Holy Spirit. Many Christians consider this day as the day the Church was established.
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Source: https://nationaltoday.com/orthodox-pentecost-sunday/
In the Bible, Shavuot marked the wheat harvest in the Land of Israel (Exodus 34:22). In addition, Orthodox rabbinic traditions teach that the date also marks the revelation of the Torah to Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai, which, according to the tradition of Orthodox Judaism, occurred at this date in 1314 BCE.