Bad Latin Theologoumena on Confirmation and Pentecost

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Fr. David Anderson: The Sunday Experience of the Resurrection

One of Fr. David's wishes is to write a book on write book on Paschaltime. May God bring it to fruition!

How is our Lord breathing upon the apostles (John 20:22-24) different from what happened at Pentecost? Was this gift of the Holy Spirit a kind of ordination, to give them the power to do the acts necessary to minister to Christians before Pentecost, a prefiguration of the gift of the Holy Spirit to the Church Universal?

As for Fr. David's memories of Sunday Mass: in the Latin ecclesial tradition (justified by texts in the Roman rite?) is the exclusive or almost-exclusive identification of the Eucharist with the "sacrifice of our Lord on the Cross a possible reason why Sunday doesn't feel like a ceelbration of the Resurrection? Maybe Mass wouldfeel more like a mini-Good Friday if anything. In contrast, the Byzantine rite is more holistic in how it understands the sarifice of our Lord, looking at the entirety of His life, both here on earth and after His ascension.

The Byzantine Gospel of Pentecost

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Adam DeVille on the Ascension and Pentecost

CWR Dispatch: Ascension, Pentecost, and the excesses of an inefficient God by Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille
God is not content with merely satisfying some soteriological “debt” as it were. He does not merely restore us to life on earth, but takes us from earth into heaven.

50 Days?

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The New Memorial in the Roman Rite

Fr. Schmemann on Pentecost

For Pentecost

Transformation in the Holy Spirit


O Heavenly King


The Promise of Pentecost

Your Good Spirit

All Souls Saturday

Elder Stefanos

Patriarch Bartholomew's Homily

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Of course, this is written by a Latin Catholic.

Babel, Pentecost, and the Universal Church by Steve Skojec

Instead of seeing Pentecost as God uniting people to Himself without requiring uniformity (which is what the men of Babel had in their unity of language and which they perverted in their pride), but rather, bringing about the unity of faith despite a diversity in language (and culture), and thus accomplishing the healing of humanity by turning what was the consequence of sin (the diversity of languages) into a good (diversity as reflecting the mercy and glory of God), Mr. Skojec advocates the use of Latin as the universal language of the Church, never mind that even at the beginning there were non-Latin-speaking churches:

At Pentecost, God did not heal the world of its diverse tongues, but instead superseded them. This first He accomplished through the miraculous preaching of the apostles, whereupon “every man heard them speak in his own tongue.” (Acts 2:6) Later, this supernatural provision was supplanted by a more quotidian mechanism: the embrace of Latin — the dominant language of the world at that time — as the universal, perpetual, and living language of the Church.

Indeed, if we are talking about the early Church, Greek has a greater claim to being the universal language of the Church than Latin.

Metropolitan Hilarion, Feast of the Holy Trinity

МИТРОПОЛИТ ИЛАРИОН: ТОЛЬКО ЧЕРЕЗ ПРИЧАСТИЕ СВЯТОГО ДУХА МОЖЕТ БЫТЬ ВОСПРИНЯТА ТАЙНА ВОПЛОЩЕНИЯ И ВОСКРЕСЕНИЯ СЫНА БОЖИЯ...

Posted by Митрополит Иларион Алфеев (Metropolitan Hilarion) on Monday, June 1, 2015

Posted by Митрополит Иларион Алфеев (Metropolitan Hilarion) on Monday, June 1, 2015

The Trinity

With the feast of the Holy Trinity yesterday, this article by Fr. Brendan seemed appropriate. What do you think?

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Monday, June 1, 2015

Sr. Vassa on Pentecost