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Dear Jim:
I think the connection is between her role as first
recipient of the Holy Spirit under the New
Dispensation (at the Annunciation) and the Church's
reception of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. There are
Byzantine liturgical texts which suggest the Holy
Spirit and the Mother of God as mirror-images of each
other. In Eastern practice, the day of Pentecost is as
much about the Trinty as it is about the events
recorded in Acts and the Monday is much more specific
re: the Holy Spirit -- hence the echoes of the Mother
of God on Monday. (There never developed a "Trinity
Sunday" in the East because it already existed in the
observance of Pentecost, which is often called
*Trinity Sunday* in the Orthodox popular terminology.)
For a modern discussion of this, there is a wonderful
chapter in Vladimir Lossky's *Mystical Theology* which
you can consult.
I will be very interested to see what Western kinds of
material float to the surface here.
Stephen
--- jbugslag <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> In the research I have been doing into Marian
> pilgrimage shrines, a remarkably common
> pattern is emerging of shrines to which pilgrimage
> was most intense on the principal Marian
> feast days and the Monday, or sometimes I believe
> the Sunday, of Pentecost. Can anyone
> explain the connection between the Virgin Mary and
> the Monday of Pentecost?
> Thanks in advance,
> Jim Bugslag
>
>
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