Trinity Day in 2021, what date?
Trinity Day in 2021 is celebrated on June 20 according to the new style and, accordingly, June 7 according to the old style. It is celebrated in the eighth week after Easter. The day before, June 19, Trinity Parental (Ecumenical) Saturday is celebrated. As it is written in church books: “We commemorate all Orthodox Christians who have departed from time immemorial, our fathers and brothers.” The ecumenical memorial service is celebrated only twice a year. The first time was on Meat Saturday before Maslenitsa and the second time on the Saturday before the Holy Trinity. The Church commemorates all deceased Orthodox Christians, regardless of how they ended their earthly journey.
Icon of the Holy Trinity by Andrei Rublev, XV century
The essence of the Trinity, what kind of holiday is it
The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is one of the fundamental tenets of the Christian faith. God is one in essence, but exists as the first principle - God the Father, God the Son - in the image of Jesus Christ, and God the Holy Spirit - the life-giving principle.
The descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles (“apostle” - messenger) took place on Mount Zion in Jerusalem on the fiftieth day after the Resurrection of Christ. In Ancient Israel, it was originally an agricultural holiday of the Harvest, a day of joy and thanksgiving, when the “firstfruits” of the first harvest collected by the end of May were sacrificed to God.
According to the New Testament: “...suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as from a rushing strong wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And cloven tongues as of fire appeared to them, and one rested on each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” The Jews who arrived in Jerusalem that day from different cities and countries, “everyone heard them (the apostles) speaking in his own language,” which caused considerable surprise among the Jews. This has never happened before: for every person, regardless of nationality, the sermon of the apostles sounded in his native language. Some residents of Jerusalem began to mock the apostles and “said: they got drunk with sweet wine.” However, the Apostle Peter admonished them, telling them that “they are not drunk as you think, for it is now the third hour of the day” and Jesus Christ, whom the Jews crucified, rose from the dead, ascended into heaven and poured out the Holy Spirit on them. The Apostle Peter's preaching was so convincing that about 3,000 people were baptized on the day of Pentecost. Thus, on the day of the Holy Trinity, according to the general Christian tradition, the universal Apostolic Church was formed.
Fresco depicting the Holy Trinity in the Church of San Simpliciano, Milan, Italy
Congratulations on Trinity
Happy Trinity Day, I hasten to congratulate you! And may God's grace be with you every hour. May there be peace, peace in your soul, May the Angel take care of all your loved ones and friends, and take away troubles!
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May the Holy Trinity Send health and prosperity, May happiness flow over the edge, May order always reign in the soul! I wish you peace, kindness, Smiles, joy and laughter, And for everyone’s dreams to come true, I wish you success in everything!
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Happy Trinity Day! I wish you warmth in your soul, peace, kindness, sincere faith. May the Lord protect and bless you. Happy holiday!
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I heartily congratulate you on the Holy Trinity, I wish you goodness, love and happiness from the bottom of my heart. Let the Trinity of saints protect you, protect you from evil and from dashing people.
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Congratulations on the Holy Trinity! I wish you warmth and love. May faith always live in you, And may everyone find their own happiness. So that all adversities pass by, We are protected by the Holy Trinity!
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Congratulations on Trinity! I wish you peace and joy. Let all the troubles go away, the Angels will take care of you. Let your wishes come true, Good news come, Your house will be filled with happiness, Things are going well!
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The Holy Trinity stepped onto the threshold. May joy come to every home today, May there be peace and goodness in your souls, I wish God to help you in everything! I wish you health, a lot of strength, may it be enough for good deeds. Live with God, with God the world is beautiful, And the Trinity has brought happiness to everyone!
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On Trinity I wish you lightness of soul, Appreciate the moment, live and take your time, I wish you joy in your hearts and kindness, May all your wishes and dreams come true. So that there is only grace in your soul, I want to wish you health and happiness.
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Happy Great Holy Trinity! May peace reign in your soul, And the sun shine over the earth, May God bestow you with kindness! Let all your affairs lead to success, Let no sadness visit you at all, And let there be plenty of room for joy and laughter in life!
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The sacred holiday is on the doorstep. Let worries go away, Let evil and troubles leave us, Let good not leave us. Today is Holy Trinity. The light of heaven illuminates us and gives us God's grace. We can't suffer today! Let everything in the world be happy today, like children, And let us live at least a day Without evil, without grief and problems!
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May the Holy Spirit, descending from heaven, cover the house with its wing. Let the roar of crazy life calm down, like at the bottom of the sea. Let there be light and there be joy, Let love warm in the souls, Let there be mercy, there will be holiness, And an Angel will visit your home!
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Decorate your house with spicy herbs, invite the Trinity to visit you, let God’s light illuminate your soul, and a miracle will definitely happen.
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Today the leaves smell so sweet, the sun is shining overhead. The day of the Great Trinity has come, It brought smiles and peace to the soul. May God protect you from all evil, May your words and deeds be good, And may faith burn in your heart with a fire that does not go out night or day.
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The bright Trinity came to us, brought us peace and joy, On this holiday God’s love fills our hearts again.
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Holy Trinity, help us to believe, call hope into our souls, and bestow God’s love, so that our hearts beat joyfully in our chests!
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Holy Trinity Feast Pure, bright, affectionate, Warms with kindness, Beautiful thoughts. Let your soul sing, turn to God, and let your good dream come true as soon as possible.
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Dear Christian holiday, It warms the soul, it is holy, We repeat again and again: Hope, Faith and Love!
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It’s a bright and cheerful day, such a festive day, after church we go home with a big family, today all Christians are on the Holy Trinity Day, purified by their souls, and there is peace in their hearts.
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The feast of the Holy Trinity, the most important and largest, and Faith fills both Hope and Love again.
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Pray to the Holy Trinity, You will find peace and tranquility, On this summer holiday, pray, Ask for your parents.
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You will bow to the Trinity in church, quietly and slowly pray, and joy and peace will come from that grace-filled prayer.
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Under the bright sky, Clouds are flying, And birds in the sky want to tell us: Today is Trinity, The best and biggest day, Hurry to church With a bright soul!
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Trinity Day is beautiful and holy, You stand in the church at least a little, You will find your peace of mind here, With Hope, Faith and Love dear.
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Christians respect this holiday, They remember their parents on this bright day, After all, they gave us Hope and Love, And instilled Faith in God in our blood!
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How festive and light your heart is, And you can even breathe beautifully, deeply, And on this bright Trinity day, Find a corner of happiness in your soul.
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This holy Trinity is holy, We love the summer holiday, we understand, It is God’s holiday, we know this from childhood, Faith and Love gives us strength, Hope helps again and again.
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In honor of the bright Trinity, We rush to the temple with you, It gives us dear peace in our hearts, And protects us from adversity all the time, Helps us live and believe in God!
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On this bright holiday, hurry to church, Pray quietly, for the soul, And believe me, Faith will help again, With Hope and Love nearby!
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Faith is our faith in God, Which leads us along the path of life, And Hope helps there, Where it is so difficult for us, To give bright feelings - Love, And we believe, and we hope - all again.
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The first summer holiday is golden, It is beautiful, bright and holy, Gives people Faith and Love, And Hope for the future - again!
Based on materials from: pozdravok.ru
Holy Trinity Day, history of the holiday
In the Orthodox tradition, the cult of the Trinity became extremely popular in the 14th-15th centuries and was associated with the activities of the most revered saint Sergius of Radonezh . Before this, it was not widespread in ancient Rus', although it was legalized by the church in the 4th century.
Sergius of Radonezh chose the Trinity as his life ministry, “so that by looking at the Most Holy Trinity the fear of the hated discord of this world could be overcome.” In 1335 (according to one version), the Monk Sergius consecrated the monastery, which he founded for schema monks, who usually lived in solitude. This is how the wooden Trinity Church appeared in the middle of the remote Radonezh forest. Later it became the basis of the future Trinity-Sergius Lavra.
At that time, the basis for the association of hermits was the theological formula “Unity in the image of the Holy Trinity,” which soon became very popular among the people, among the secular and spiritual authorities. As indivisible, the Trinity personified the need to unite the Russian lands; as unmerged, it demanded liberation from the foreign yoke, from everything spiritually alien. Beginning with the monastery of Sergius of Radonezh, the veneration of the Holy Trinity quickly spread throughout Rus'. From the middle of the 14th century. The holiday of Pentecost was more often called Trinity Day.
Journey in Search of Holiness
Great hermits, reaching incredible spiritual heights in their exploits, often asked a wary question: am I delusional? Am I falling into pride and self-deception, am I putting myself above other mortal people? Realizing the impending spiritual danger, such “athletes of the spirit” set out to travel in search of holiness.
So, for example, Anthony the Great learned that in one city there was a doctor who “gives his surplus to the poor and sings daily with the angels,” and went to him to study.
One of the most amazing such journeys was made by Abba Zosima, who lived in the 5th-6th centuries. According to the biography of the saint, the saint, in the 53rd year of his life, asked the question: “Will there be a man in the desert who has surpassed me?” An angel answered the hermit, who suggested that the saint go to the Jordan monastery to find the answer to his question there. The monk did just that.
Traveling through the desert, he met a lonely woman who, as it turned out, led the strictest ascetic life there. Her name was Maria (Egyptian). She told him about her life and what feats she had performed in solitude for forty-seven years. Having finished her amazing story, Maria asked to come to her again in a year to give her communion. Zosima fulfilled her request, and then after her death, having buried the great righteous woman with tears, he told the monks of the Jordan monastery about what example of the greatest spiritual feat he found on his journey in search of holiness.
Trinity Symbolism
Symbols of the Trinity: the symbol of the Father is the hand, the lamb is the symbol of the Son and the dove is the symbol of the Holy Spirit. One of the oldest symbols of the Trinity is an equilateral triangle, showing that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are equal and constitute one divine essence.
A modern interpretation of the symbolism of the Holy Trinity. The blue triangle is a symbol of the Holy Trinity, that is, a representation of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Divine triad in the religions of other countries and peoples
Undoubtedly, the Triple Alliance was first discussed not in Jerusalem, when the Holy Spirit descended on the apostles.
The top of the Babylonian pantheon was occupied by the divine triad of gods of all that exists: Anu, Bel, Ea. Anu is the supreme lord of all things, the father of the gods, who owns the sky, Bel is the lord of the Earth, Ea is the god of water, who owns the underground forces and lives in the waters of the ocean. The Babylonians also had another great triad: the moon god Siya, the sun god Samas and the thunder god Ramman.
Julius Caesar described a powerful triad of Germanic gods. He called them Sol, Vulcanus and Luna.
Among the ancient Greeks, Zeus, Poseidon and Hades were analogues of the Babylonian Anu, Bel and Ea. Zeus had power over the sky, Poseidon over the sea, and Hades ruled the underworld.
India had its own “union of three,” known as the trimurti (“triple image”) - Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. All of them are a manifestation of a single divine essence. Brahma created the world, Vishnu is its guardian, Shiva personifies both the destructive and creative principle. The orthodox Hindus recognized only Brahma as the main and only God-Absolute. In modern Hinduism, there are no temples for him, because he is too distant, distant and not entirely understandable to Hindus. Another thing is Shiva and Vishna, as the gods closest and most understandable to the people.
Ceiling fresco depicting the Holy Trinity in the Church of Chiesa di Santa Croce, Parma, Italy
Rest
On July 24, 1864, Archpriest John Sergiev, whom we now know as John of Kronstadt, set off from the pier of the city of Rybinsk on a trip along the Volga “to relax and admire the Volga views.” The saint climbed onto the deck of the steamship Brave, on which Emperor Alexander III had made his voyage two years earlier, and set off to wander along the main waterway of the European part of Russia. But even on vacation, John of Kronstadt did not stop his ministry.
The archpriest visited Kostroma, Yuryevets, Saratov, Kazan and more.
And people flocked everywhere to see the traveling saint and convey to him their sorrows and anxieties. Particularly noteworthy was the stop at the village of Bor opposite Nizhny Novgorod. The news of the arrival of everyone's beloved shepherd spread throughout the area in an instant. A huge crowd had gathered. We had to allocate a whole steamship, on which everyone who wanted to sailed to the Brave. Father John boarded the arriving ship to meet the believers.
- What a beauty! - he said then - what an abundance of water! I admired Nizhny Novgorod for a long time and now I can’t take my eyes off it.
Subsequently, Righteous John of Kronstadt repeated his water journey three more times. And everything remained the same: a lot of people, communication with the local clergy, solemn liturgies, sermons, visits to monasteries and shelters, receptions with famous people.
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Holy Trinity Day according to popular beliefs and customs
For the Day of the Holy Trinity, Orthodox churches and some houses are decorated with tree branches (most often birch), grass and flowers. This custom most likely comes from the Old Testament Pentecost, when green gifts of awakened nature were brought to God, and is also associated with the Russian folk tradition of welcoming summer.
The main attribute of Trinity rites is the birch tree, a symbol of the feminine principle and the eternal renewal of nature. According to popular beliefs, the birch and its branches have special miraculous powers, because it is on this tree that leaves appear earlier than on other trees.
Trinity Day was considered a holiday for unmarried girls and young women without children. On the growing birch trees, girls dressed in red dresses and sundresses curled the branches, intertwining them in the form of a wreath with each other, as well as with grass, flowers, ribbons, and embroidered towels. In the Kostroma province they believed that if you sit in the shade of the Trinity birch tree, making a wish, it will certainly come true, and if you sit first in the shade of the curled birch tree, you will get married this year.
In other places, trees were cut down and carried around the village, making rounds with it around sown fields, meadows, and huts. Near the birch tree, the girls arranged a ritual feeding of the tree, and worshiped with the birch tree, initiated them into their secrets, and washed themselves with birch sap. The Trinity birch was usually chosen in advance. The girls went into the forest and looked for a young, curly birch tree with long branches or with two tops. It was often celebrated, for example, the top was broken, and then the selected tree was cut down, dug up by the roots, and, for example, in the Ryazan region the thickest and most beautiful branch was cut off.
In the Yenisei and Irkutsk provinces, a felled tree was dressed up “in the best girlish dress, a braid was woven ... from a tow” and decorated with “korolkam” (beads). In some places in Siberia, two birch trees were decorated: one with a girl, the other with a guy.
In the Tobolsk province, on the Day of the Holy Trinity, they chose a cheerful girl of 10-12 years old who could dance. She crawled up the birch tree, dressed in a girl’s dress, “under the skirt, took it by the trunk and moved ahead of the round dance: it seemed as if the birch tree was walking and dancing on its own.”
In the Kostroma province, each participant in a round dance had to hold on to her ribbon tied to the top of the Trinity birch tree; at the same time they circled around the tree, thus rotating it too.
On the Day of the Holy Trinity, the girls gathered the table all together - in a pool, where the main dishes were scrambled eggs, porridge, noodles, stews with poultry and a variety of pastries - most of all flatbreads, kurnik and loaf. The remains of the loaf were divided and distributed among families where there were girls of marriageable age, and small pieces were dried and later mixed into wedding cakes.
Stained glass windows in the church of the municipality of Tervuren, Belgium, depicting the Holy Trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Trinity Day, proverbs, sayings and signs
On Trinity Day 2021, it is appropriate to remember folk wisdom and pay attention to the weather - despite everything, popular forecasts often come true.
- Trinity is rich in three gifts: flowers, herbs and ruddy summer.
- There will be rain on Trinity Sunday - there will be a lot of mushrooms.
- On Trinity, rain means warm weather.
- On Trinity, every branch is a helper and a healer.
And on Trinity 2021 you should believe in miracles and magic.
- They don’t swim on Trinity Sunday - the mermaids are fierce and lure you to the bottom.
- If a guy kisses a girl under a birch tree on Trinity Sunday, the girl will be his wife.
- If they get wooed on Trinity and get married on Intercession, it means that the spouses will have a long, happy life, in love and harmony.
Kurnik with chicken, mushrooms and rice, perfect for Trinity Day in 2021, see the recipe here
Business travel
Saint Alexy of Moscow (1292/1305-1378) became metropolitan in Rus' in the most difficult historical circumstances for the country. Constrained political conditions: dependence on the Golden Horde, a complex diplomatic game in the western direction. And the newly emerging state organism itself is bursting at the seams. Throughout his life, the Metropolitan dealt with far more than just church issues. As a diplomatic official, he constantly participated in resolving various foreign policy conflicts.
In other words, the saint’s entire life is constant business trips.
Metropolitan Alexy traveled to Constantinople several times, where he sought important church agreements. I also traveled to Kyiv and Lithuania. Once the saint almost died during a storm on the Black Sea. Another time he escaped from captivity.
The most difficult diplomatic trip of the Metropolitan took place in August 1357. Khan Taidul's wife became seriously ill and went blind. Having heard about the great spiritual power of Metropolitan Alexy, the khan sent an embassy to Moscow with a letter to the Grand Duke, which stated that if, through the prayers of this holy man, his wife did not see the light, then the state would be subject to ruin. The rates are capped.
On August 18, 1357, the saint left Moscow. In the Golden Horde, after serving a prayer service over a sick woman, Metropolitan Alexy sprinkled her with holy water. The disease subsided, and the eyes began to see again. The goal of the risky trip was achieved.
Trinity Day in 2021, what and how to cook
On Trinity Sunday, when nature is full of lush greenery, we suggest preparing a loaf that can feed everyone at home - no matter how hungry they may be.
Butter loaf from Yulia Markova from Moscow, @juli_2006
Butter loaf
To prepare 8-10 servings you need:
- 500 g warm drinking water
- 200 g milk
- 3 tbsp. l. Sahara
- 11 g dry yeast
- 1 kg flour + 200 g for decoration
- 20 g butter
- 2 tsp. salt
- 2 eggs + 1 egg for brushing the loaf
- 1 yolk
- 2 egg whites + 1 egg white for brushing the loaf
- vegetable oil
- 500 g of mushrooms, preferably white ones, but champignons can also be used
- 1 onion
- 1 medium juicy raw beet
1. For the loaf dough, combine warm water, milk and sugar in a large saucepan.
2. Add yeast and half the flour. Knead the dough and leave under cling film for 30-40 minutes. in a warm place without drafts. The dough should rise 2 times.
3. Add melted butter, salt and eggs and yolk, beaten until smooth, to the prepared dough.
4. Add the remaining flour and knead into a stiff dough.
5. Cover the pan with cling film and leave to rise for 30-40 minutes. in a warm place, stirring occasionally.
6. Prepare the dough for sculpting the decoration . To do this, beat the whites until fluffy. Add flour (200 g) and knead into a plastic dough, cover with cling film until use.
7. For the filling , fry chopped mushrooms and onions in a heated frying pan with vegetable oil until golden brown, evaporating the liquid from the mushrooms.
8. Divide the loaf dough into 4 parts. Mix the two parts and roll into a large circle. Lay out most of the filling (about 2/3), connect the edges, and form into a ball.
9. Roll the second part of the dough into a thick sausage, cut into 3 strips. Roll each strip into a flagellum and braid them.
10. From the third part of the dough, make another bun with the remaining mushroom filling. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Place a large bun on top of it and a braid around it. For a large bun - a smaller bun.
11. Grate the beets on a fine grater and squeeze out the juice. To decorate the dough, color it pink with beetroot juice.
12. Roll out the pink dough into a thin layer and cut out various decorations: braids, twigs, flowers. Brush the loaf with egg white and attach decorations to it. Then brush the entire surface of the loaf with beaten egg.
13. Bake in an oven preheated to 220°C for 35-45 minutes. or until fully cooked. Serve warm or cold.
