(Holiday 40 days after Easter)
Thou hast ascended in glory, O Christ our God, / having brought joy to the disciple / by the promise of the Holy Spirit, / by the former blessing communicated to them, // for Thou art the Son of God, the Savior of the world.
In Russian
Christ our God! You ascended in glory, filling Your disciples with joy through the promise of the Holy Spirit, and with Your blessing assured them that You are the Son of God, the Redeemer of the world.
A promise is a promise.
What is this troparion about?
That Jesus Christ ascended into heaven, delighted His disciples with the promise of the Holy Spirit and with His blessing assured them of His Divinity and the salvation of the world.
What do the words mean: the disciple created joy through the promise of the Holy Spirit?
The disciples of Jesus Christ must have felt grief from separation from the Lord ascending into heaven. But the Lord, promising to send them the Comforter of the Holy Spirit, thereby comforted them.