Lutherans have a Trinity (12/06)

Unlike Orthodox Christians, Lutherans celebrate Trinity Sunday not on the same day as Pentecost, but a week after it.

Today's holiday is dedicated to the glorification of the Holy Trinity; the liturgical readings and sermons of this day reveal the Christian teaching about the trinity of God.

In the Middle Ages, festivities in honor of the Holy Trinity were celebrated locally. Pope Alexander III in the twelfth century considered it unnecessary and did not recommend it to be observed, believing that the Holy Trinity was glorified in every service. Pope John XXII in the fourteenth century decreed that this feast be observed throughout the Universal Church the Sunday following Pentecost.

Now in the Lutheran calendar, the feast of Pentecost ends the memory of historical figures and the events of their lives, and the half-year of the Church begins with the Feast of Trinity.

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