This Saturday marked a major Orthodox Christian holiday, Pentecost. We know from the Acts that “...when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.... And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting... And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them... And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost...”
Nowadays people are very pragmatic, they hardly believe in miracles, yet inwardly many of us cherish the dream of the Holy Ghost filling this long-suffering land and delivering us all from evil and suffering, so we can finally identify ourselves as a true nation abiding by His Commandments, living without stealing, killing, coveting our neighbors’ property, creating false idols, and telling lies. It will be then that His Precepts will not need to be remembered on special occasions like Pentecost but will have become the rules of daily life.
This is something even hard-line pragmatists should secretly pray for.
Photo by Leonid Berestovsky, specially for The Day







