The Holy Trinity is the Source of the Church Unity

June 2014

On 9 June 2014, the Orthodox Christians celebrate the Holy Trinity. His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel delivered a sermon at the chapel of the Patriarchal Residence dedicated to Saint Great Martyr George, in which he explained how this feast was scheduled for Monday.

“This feast of the Most Holy Trinity was first set in the calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church, not on Monday, but just on the Pentecost day. This is why the Saturday before the Pentecost in called in the Russian Church the Saturday of the Holy Trinity, and the Pentecost day or of the Descent of the Holy Trinity is called the Feast of the Holy Trinity.

In the Greek tradition and in the Romanian tradition too, this feast is scheduled on Monday, after the day of the Descent of the Holy Spirit. There is no contradiction in the fact that we have both the feast of the Holy Spirit Himself and the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity, because the Feast of the Holy Spirit is unavoidably the Feast of the entire Holy Trinity, because the Holy Spirit gives the Church the grace of the Most Holy Trinity, the grace of Jesus Christ, our Lord, which shows the love of God-the-Father and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit”, the Patriarch of Romania said.

The Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church has also shown the unity of the Persons of the Holy Trinity: “The Holy Trinity is the spring of the unity of the Church. It is also the model and spring of the Church unity. But the Holy Trinity is the unity of the family unity too, of friendship, of the people’s living in society, not in oblivion, but helping the others. The Holy Trinity is a social programme. To live according to the image of the Holy Trinity means to live not for oneself, but for the others and together with the others”, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel has also explained.

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