The Feast of Pentecost at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem
The Feast of Pentecost was celebrated on Sunday, May 30/ June 12, 2022, at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
On this feast, the whole Church and especially the Church of Jerusalem commemorates in joy, gleefulness and doxology that fifty days after the Lord’s Resurrection, and ten days after the Ascension, the Lord, Who had ascended in the heavens and sat by the right side of the Father and deified the human form that He had received for us, fulfilled His promise to His disciples, and sent through the Father the Holy Spirit, the other Comforter, in the form of tongues of fire, which sat on top of each disciple’s head. With the Holy Spirit, they received the gift to speak about the marvels of God in ‘foreign languages’ to the gathered crowds who believed and got baptized, who according to the book of Acts (Acts ch. 2) were ‘three thousand souls’ and they established the first Church…
This news was originally published on the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem official website. Please click here to read the full text.
