Thread by @sergioschloros

The icon for Mid-Pentecost does not show Christ teaching in the temple in the middle of the feast (John 7:14-53) but as a youth (Luke 2:41-50).
It intends to bring to mind Christ as the pre-incarnate Logos (Emmanuel; Angel of Great Counsel), depicted as a beardless youth.

Today we hear Christ in the temple promising the Water of Life, we recall His teaching as a youth, and we recognize Him as the Holy Wisdom of God.
Therefore, Churches named 'Holy Wisdom' celebrate on Mid-Pentecost.

This feast unites Pascha and Pentecost and is part of the thematic shift that begins with the Sunday of the Paralytic:
The first three Sundays reinforce the Truth of the Resurrection; the next three center around Water.

We experience the Resurrection first in darkness then in a shock (ἐξαιφνής) of incomprehensible Light.
The revelation of the beginning of the new creation parallels the beginning of the old.

The encounter at the Sheep pool, Jacob's well, and the pool of Siloam speak to our baptism but point to another baptism to come, that of the Holy Spirit.
These sources of water below are contrasted with the Water above, continuing the parallel.

Holy Wisdom is the fountain of Life, the cessation of thirst, the confounding of the sclerotic death-oriented by means of death.
He descended; He ascends; He will send the Paraclete who gives Life.

At Pentecost, the promised Paraclete arrives, in the form of fire and wind, breathing Life into the Body: the steward of the new creation.