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The first
Sunday after Pentecost, instituted to honor the Most Holy Trinity. In
the early Church no special Office or day was assigned for the Holy Trinity.
When the Arian heresy was spreading the Fathers prepared an Office with
canticles, responses, a Preface, and hymns, to be recited on Sundays.
In the Sacramentary of St. Gregory the Great there are prayers and the
Preface of the Trinity. The Micrologies, written during the
pontificate of Gregory VII, call the Sunday after Pentecost a Dominica
vacans, with no special Office, but add that in some places they recited the
Office of the Holy Trinity composed by Bishop Stephen or Liθge By other the
Office was said on the Sunday before Advent. Alexander II, not III,
refused a petition for a special feast on the plea, that such a feast was
not customary in the Roman Church which daily honored the Holy Trinity by
the Gloria, Patri, etc., but he did not forbid the celebration where it
already existed. John XXII (1316-1334) ordered the feast for the entire
Church on the first Sunday after Pentecost. A new Office had been made by
the Franciscan John Peckham, Canon of Lyons, later Archbishop of Canterbury
(d. 1292). The feast ranked as a double of the second class but was raised
to the dignity of a primary of the first class, 24 July 1911, by Pius X (Acta
Ap. Sedis, III, 351). The Greeks have no special feast. Since it was after
the first great Pentecost that the doctrine of the Trinity was proclaimed to
the world, the feast becomingly follows that of Pentecost.