Prayer Corner
Saints, Feasts, and Readings for 02/17/2013
Matins Gospel Reading:
Epistle Reading:
St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 6:16-18; 7:1
Gospel Reading:
Sunday of the Canaanite; Theodore the Tyro, Great Martyr; Mariamne, Sister of Apostle Philip, and Equal to the Apostles; Righteous Auxentius; The Pious Rulers Marcian and Pulcheria; Theodore the New Martyr of Byzantium; Hermogenes (Germogen), Patriarch of Moscow
Spiritual Reading
The Feast of Pentecost
The Feast of Holy Pentecost is celebrated each year on the fiftieth day after the Great and Holy Feast of Pascha (Easter) and ten days after the Feast of the Ascension of Christ. The Feast is always celebrated on a Sunday.
The Feast commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles on the day of Pentecost, a feast of the Jewish tradition.
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