The Feast of Pentecost
May 2025
Pentecost by Father Alexander Schmemann… “The feast of the descent of the Holy Spirit.” I say these words I’ve known since childhood, and all at once they strike me as if I’m hearing them for the first time. Yes, from the time I was a child I knew that ten days following the Ascension, meaning fifty days after Pascha, Christians from time immemorial celebrated and continue to celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit in a feast known by its church name as Pentecost, or more popularly as Troitsa “Trinity,” the day of the Trinity.
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St. Nicholas Orthodox Church is a parish of the Orthodox Church in America in San Anselmo, CA.