Greek Orthodoxy - Feast of Pentecost - The Holy Spirit

In the Orthodox Church the Feast of Pentecost is One Of the even great feasts of the Lord observed during the liturgical year. It celebrates the Lord's bestowal of the Spirit upon His Church. Pentecost is also a feast of the Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit - One God in Three Persons, existing eternally and working together for the salvation of the world. Finally Pentecost celebrates the gift of the Spirit to the world, the historical revelation of the Spirit. In honor of the Spirit, the day after Pentecost has been appointed Monday of the Holy Spirit. The following hymns express the multiple themes of Pentecost:

Blessed are You, Christ our God, who have shown the fisherman to be all-wise, sending upon them the Holy Spirit and through them drawing into the net of the Gospel all people. Loving Lord, glory to You!

Dismissal Hymn. Sunday of Pentecost

Come people, let us worship God in Three Persons, the Son who abides in the Father together with the Holy Spirit ... one Power, one Essence, one God, whom we worship saying: Holy God who has created all things through the Son and in the Holy Spirit! Holy Mighty, through whom we have known the Father and the Spirt has come to the world! Holy Immortal, Comforter and Spirit, who proceeds from the Father and rests in the Son. Holy Trinity, glory to You!

Hymn of Great Vespers. Sunday of Pentecost

The Service of Kneeling, which is the Vespers of the Monday pf the Holy Spirit, is one of the most solemn acts of worship during the whole liturgical year. During this service on the day of Pentecost we glorify God by recounting His great acts of salvation in history. We solemnly kneel before God recognizing our sinfulness and we earnestly implore Him for forgiveness. We pray for God's visitation, protection, and renewal through fresh outpourings of the Spirit. We sing triumphantly, "Who is so great a God as our God? You alone are the God who does wonders!"

Today all nations beheld wondrous things in the city of David when the Holy Spirit came down in tongues of fire, as Luke the divine author has clearly told ...

The Holy Spirit is light and life and living source of knowledge, Spirit of wisdom, Spirit of understanding, righteous, just, perceptive, ruling, and cleansing from offenses, God and godlike, fire produced from fire, speaking, working, and distributing gifts...

Heavenly King, Comforter, Spirit of truth, present in all places and filling all things, the treasury of blessings and giver of life: come and abide in us. Cleanse us from all impurity and save our souls, gracious Lord.

Hymns of Praises. Sunday of Pentecost. Chanted during the Service of Kneeling.

Taken from the Book, A Year of the Lord