Day of the Holy Spirit (13/06)

On the Monday following Trinity, a holiday is celebrated in honor of the Holy Spirit. This holiday was established by the Church for the sake of the greatness of the Most Holy and Life-Giving Spirit, as one is (from) the Holy and Life-Giving Trinity«, in opposition to the teachings of heretics who rejected the Deity of the Holy Spirit and His consubstantiality with God the Father and the Son of God.

Holy Spirit — Third Person (Hypostasis) of the Holy Trinity, true God, consubstantial and equal to the Father and the Son.

Like all Persons (Hypostases) of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit has properties inherent only to God. Like all Persons of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit is equal in His Divine dignity to the Father and the Son. Like all Persons of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit is consubstantial with Him, has one Divine essence (nature) with the Father and the Son.

Like all Persons of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit is given a single and inseparable worship, that is, by worshiping the Holy Spirit, Christians worship together with Him the Father and the Son, constantly bearing in mind Their common Deity, the one Divine essence.

What distinguishes the Holy Spirit from the Two Other Persons of the Holy Trinity is a personal (hypostatic) property, which lies in the fact that He eternally comes from the Father. The Exodus of the Holy Spirit has neither beginning nor end, it is quite timeless, since God Himself exists outside of time.

By virtue of His Divine omnipresence, the Holy Spirit can also reside in a person who believes in Christ, imparting to him the hitherto unknown knowledge of God, associating him with the fullness of the all-blissful Divine life. Divine actions in man are often called the grace of the Holy Spirit, since the Holy Spirit incomprehensibly inhabits man, dwells and abides in him.

At the same time, the graceful Divine actions of the community to all Persons of the Holy Trinity and the presence of the Holy Spirit in man also means the abiding with Him of the Father and Son — of the Divine Mind and the Divine Word, that is, the entire Holy Trinity — «Um, Word and Spirit — of the same homogeneity and divinity» (Saint Gregory the Theologian).

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