On the feast of the Holy Trinity His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr performed Divine Liturgy in the square in front of the Dormition Cathedral of La
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On Sunday, June 15, on the day of Holy Trinity His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine performed Divine Liturgy and Vesper service in the square in front of the Cathedral of Holy Dormition of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. Concelebrating with him were Superior of the monastery Archbishop Pavlo of Vyshgorod, Rector of the Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary Bishop Anthony of Boryspil, Secretary to the Primate of the UOC Bishop Alexander of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi, brethren of the monastery and teachers of the theological schools in the holy orders.
Praying at the festive service were president of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko, Head of the National Security and Defense Council Raisa Bogatyriova, speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Arseniy Yatseniuk, and a number of people's deputies, among them Victor Yanukovych, Mykola Azarov, Vasyl Gorbal and Anna Herman.
In his archpastoral sermon His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr told the believers of the feast of the Pentecost.
"Before his ascension to heavens Christ commanded his disciples to return to Jerusalem and stay there until they get a power from God," said the Primate, "Thus, Jesus promised that they receive the Holy Spirit of whom he spoke throughout his life.
This prophecy came true in the apostles on the fiftieth day after Pascha, i.e. on the tenth day after Ascension of Christ. In this connection the Church praises and honours the Holy Trinity. Thus, the Pentecost is a feast of the Holy Trinity and a start of the blissful ministry of the Church."
At the Liturgy the Primate ordained priest an assistant to vice-rector of the KTA&S for pedagogical work hierodeacon Oleksiy (Koval).
At the end of the Divine service Metropolitan performed a traditional blessing of the green branches and greeted the faithful on the feast of the Holy Trinity, thereafter the President of Ukraine turned to those present.
"The Holy Pentecost is a birthday of the Church of Christ, a word of Truth the apostles were talking about" noted the head of the state, "The Holy spirit descended onto them, giving each nation the most prominent sign of God's grace - their personal language.
Our ancient land is an inexhaustible spiritual source of the Christ's faith, where the love to God, motherland, language and tradition of the Ukrainian nation take their origin."
Then His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr together with Victor Yushchenko and their escort visited an exhibition dedicated to 900th anniversary of the gate church of the Holy Trinity of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, which is open on daily basis for the worshippers of history of the church in the Cathedral of the Holy Dormition.
At the end the state authorities visited the church of the feast.
One of the peculiarities of the divine service of that day was reading the kneeling prayers composed by the Holy Hierarch Basil the Great in the IV century.
There is a tradition to decorate the churches and the premises with grass, flowers and branches on the feast of the Trinity. This is the way the Old Testament Church celebrated the Pentecost. The New Testament Church also kept this tradition, giving it a new significance: now the fresh greens symbolize not only bringing to God the first rudiments of spring but the Church of Christ itself symbolizing renovation of people with the Holy Spirit.
On the eve of the feast, June 14, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church presided over the Vigils ion the Refectory Church of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.
Source:
http://orthodox.org.ua/eng/node/229#
Praying at the festive service were president of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko, Head of the National Security and Defense Council Raisa Bogatyriova, speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Arseniy Yatseniuk, and a number of people's deputies, among them Victor Yanukovych, Mykola Azarov, Vasyl Gorbal and Anna Herman.
In his archpastoral sermon His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr told the believers of the feast of the Pentecost.
"Before his ascension to heavens Christ commanded his disciples to return to Jerusalem and stay there until they get a power from God," said the Primate, "Thus, Jesus promised that they receive the Holy Spirit of whom he spoke throughout his life.
This prophecy came true in the apostles on the fiftieth day after Pascha, i.e. on the tenth day after Ascension of Christ. In this connection the Church praises and honours the Holy Trinity. Thus, the Pentecost is a feast of the Holy Trinity and a start of the blissful ministry of the Church."
At the Liturgy the Primate ordained priest an assistant to vice-rector of the KTA&S for pedagogical work hierodeacon Oleksiy (Koval).
At the end of the Divine service Metropolitan performed a traditional blessing of the green branches and greeted the faithful on the feast of the Holy Trinity, thereafter the President of Ukraine turned to those present.
"The Holy Pentecost is a birthday of the Church of Christ, a word of Truth the apostles were talking about" noted the head of the state, "The Holy spirit descended onto them, giving each nation the most prominent sign of God's grace - their personal language.
Our ancient land is an inexhaustible spiritual source of the Christ's faith, where the love to God, motherland, language and tradition of the Ukrainian nation take their origin."
Then His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr together with Victor Yushchenko and their escort visited an exhibition dedicated to 900th anniversary of the gate church of the Holy Trinity of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, which is open on daily basis for the worshippers of history of the church in the Cathedral of the Holy Dormition.
At the end the state authorities visited the church of the feast.
One of the peculiarities of the divine service of that day was reading the kneeling prayers composed by the Holy Hierarch Basil the Great in the IV century.
There is a tradition to decorate the churches and the premises with grass, flowers and branches on the feast of the Trinity. This is the way the Old Testament Church celebrated the Pentecost. The New Testament Church also kept this tradition, giving it a new significance: now the fresh greens symbolize not only bringing to God the first rudiments of spring but the Church of Christ itself symbolizing renovation of people with the Holy Spirit.
On the eve of the feast, June 14, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church presided over the Vigils ion the Refectory Church of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.
Source:
http://orthodox.org.ua/eng/node/229#
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