{"id":18997,"date":"2021-06-21T13:36:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T10:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpda.ru\/?post_type=news&p=18997"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T09:08:00","slug":"v-den-svjatogo-duha-v-akademii-proshli-prazdnichnye-bogosluzhenija","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/mpda.ru\/en\/news\/v-den-svjatogo-duha-v-akademii-proshli-prazdnichnye-bogosluzhenija\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive services on the Day of the Holy Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next day after the Holy Pentecost is dedicated to the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Most Holy Trinity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St. John Chrysostom said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Holy Spirit is called the Comforter because He comforts people not like a second one after God, but as God, because consolation is one of the features of God\u00bb<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Church established the holiday to contradict the heresy, which denied deity of the Holy Spirit and His consubstantiality with God the Father and God the Son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On June 20, Archimandrite Platon (Igumnov) officed an evening service at the Intercession Church of the Moscow Theological Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 21, the Bishop of Zvenigorod Theodorite celebrated the Divine Liturgy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the antiphons, Bishop Theodorite tonsured third-year undergraduate students Vasily Veretennikov, Ioann Kizyun, Sergei Konoval and Yuri Grebenshchikov as Readers. Then the Rector elevated Reader Evgeny Smirnov, a fourth-year undergraduate student, to the rank of a subdeacon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After reading the Holy Gospel, Bishop Theodorite addressed an assembly with his archpastoral word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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