Trinity Sundy by Artist Valery Badakva, 2002

In Russian colloquial usage, “Trinity Sunday” is Pentecost. It is also called “Green Sunday” as the clergy wear green vestments and the church is decorated with plants and leaves. The faithful normally take some of the greenery home to decorate their icons. It is also the end of the Paschal season, we go back to the ordinary liturgical cycle found in the Menaia, and end the festal cycle found in the Tsvetnaya Triod (“Flowery Triod”).