Holy Spirit Monday is celebrated every year to remember the beginning of the Christian church and the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles of Christ in the form of flames.

Holy Spirit Monday, which happens 50 days after the commemoration of Orthodox Easter, is considered by some as the Second Easter as the day also marks the birth of the church.

According to Christian dogma, Trinity is the unity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit in one Godhead, and the Holy Spirit, also known as the holy ghost, is considered the third person in the union.

The Gospel says that after the resurrection of Christ, the holy spirit descended on the apostles in the form of tongues of fire. Christians believe that this spirit prepared the followers of Jesus to go around the world and preach in languages everyone could understand.

This year, Holy Spirit Monday is celebrated on June 13. In Greek Orthodox Churches, Holy Spirit Monday is a three-day religious celebration and the countries like Switzerland, Hungary and France observe the day as a public holiday.

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Here are some quotes about Holy Spirit that will help you strengthen your faith: courtesy - Brainy Quote

  1. "If the Holy Spirit lives in you, that makes you my brothers and sisters."- Robert J. Bentley
  2. "The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him."-John Eldredge
  3. "Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us."-Joseph Prince
  4. "We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us."-Joel Osteen
  5. "If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation,"-Thomas Keating
  6. "The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it."-Lewis B. Smedes
  7. "Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do."Charles Stanley
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