The Monday of the Holy Spirit.
As it is the custom of the Church, on the day after every great Feast, to honor those through whom it came to pass – our Lady on the day after the Lord’s Nativity, Joachim and Anna after our Lady’s Nativity, the holy Baptist the day after Theophany, and so forth – on this day we honor our God the All-holy Spirit, the Comforter promised by our Saviour to His disciples (John 14:16), Who descended upon them at holy Pentecost and guided them “into all truth” (ibid. 16:13), and through them, us.
Rest from labor.
The above account is taken from the Great Horologion,
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