The Feast of the Holy Trinity in Thessaloniki (PHOTO)
Written by I.M. Thessaloniki. 13/06 22:07
With the appropriate festive splendor and the proper honorary mood, the “meteor festival and last feast” of Pentecost was celebrated on the two days of June 12-13, in the celebrating Holy Parish Church of the Holy Trinity in the area of Faliro, in Thessaloniki.
On the Sunday of Pentecost, June 12, in the afternoon, a Great Festive Vespers was celebrated with a bread class, during which His Beatitude Bishop Athenagoras of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (of the Ecumenical Patriarchate) stood out, accompanied by His Eminence archim. Fr. Iakovos Athanassiou and in the presence of a large number of devout Christians.
This morning, Monday of the Holy Spirit, June 13, Orthros was performed and then -in a large number of the Church- the Solemn Hierarchical Divine Liturgy, officiated by the Most Reverend Bishop of Patara, Mr. Athenagorou, with the participation of the General Hierarchical Commissioner of the Holy Metropolis of Thessaloniki, Archbishop Fr. Fotiou Zarzavatsaki, priests and deacons, also present, the Supreme Mayor of our city, Mr. Konstantinos Zervas and the honorable deputies, Mr. Konstantinos Gioulekas and Dimitrios Kouvelas.
During the Holy Communions, the god Logos was proclaimed by Theophilestatos who developed with theological clarity the teaching of our Church about the persons of the Holy Trinity, through which he acquires the ability to balance between absolute distinction, but at the same time in absolute Their.
He focused especially on the third Person of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit and the gifts he gives to the baptized members of our Church, but also on his living presence in all the Holy Mysteries of our Church, which are performed under Him.
Theophilestatos on both days, during the dismissal of the Holy Communions, thanked His Eminence the Metropolitan of Thessaloniki Mr. Anthimos, for the kind and honorable invitation to this, to precede the worship meetings of the celebrating Holy Temple of our local Church.
He expressed his joy to be among familiar and loved ones, as well as he comes from our city and served in the Holy Diocese of Thessaloniki, serving as a deacon and elder, head of the Holy Parish Church of Osias Xeni, Charilaou area, while he was Director . of the Educational and Cultural Foundation “AGIOS GRIGORIOS O PALAMAS” of the Holy Metropolis of Thessaloniki and Publishing Director of the periodical organ of the Holy Metropolis of Thessaloniki “AGIOS GRIGORIOS O PALAMAS”.
Finally, he thanked the head of the Holy Temple of the Holy Trinity, Archim. p. Pavlos Papakonstantinou for the warm welcome he reserved for his face, with feelings of special love and hospitality.
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