Oh you who are beyond ev erything! For what else can be sung about you?

St Gregory the Theologian

We have seen the true light, we have received the heavenly Spirit, we have found the true faith worshipping the undivided Trinity which has saved us.

Hymn from the feast day of Pentecost

In the second coming of Christ, all of us are going to receive a resurrected body. We will live in eternity in both body and soul, being forever filled with the presence of the resurrected and ascended Christ.

The Resurrection and Ascension of Christ glorified his human nature, having re-created the nature of men. He sat on the right hand of the Father, and was given power over the visible and invisible world.

Whilst physical thirst can be satisfied by a glass of water, the thirst of our soul is not so easily satisfied. Nothing in the material world can satisfy the thirst of our soul.

St Gregory asks his flock, "Why did He (God) bless and hallow the day on which He did nothing?

Seeing an icon of the Holy Theotokos, she prayed that if allowed to venerate the Holy Cross, she would change her life and follow whatever path of salvation the Mother of God revealed.