Hymn Lyrics Pentecost

Pentecost

May 19, 2024

     50 days after Easter is Pentecost (Whitsunday).  The Easter Season which lasts seven weeks comes to an end with Pentecost.  Easter is a moveable feast and thus Pentecost can fall anywhere between May 10 and June 13.  Our novena, nine days of prayer, has its origin in Pentecost.  In Acts 1, Our Lady and the Apostles prayed together “continuously” for nine days after the Ascension leading up to Pentecost. Traditionally, the Church prays the novena to the Holy Spirit in the days before Pentecost.

    The name of the day itself is derived from the Greek word “pentecoste,” meaning 50th.

     There is a parallel Jewish holiday, Shavuot, which falls 50 days after Passover. Shavuot is sometimes called the festival of weeks, referring to the seven weeks since Passover.  Originally a wheat harvest feast, Shavuot is a two-day (one day in Israel) festival commemorating the LORD giving the Torah to the Jewish people at Mt. Sinai over 3,000 years ago.

     On Pentecost a “strong, driving” wind filled the room where they were gathered, and tongues of fire came to rest on their heads, allowing them to speak in different languages so they could proclaim that Jesus is Lord in the power of the Holy Spirit to the many Jews in Jerusalem for Shavuot from many countries and be understood by the pilgrims.  The Holy Spirit also gave the apostles the other gifts and fruits necessary to fulfill the great commission — to go out and preach the Gospel to all nations. It fulfills the New Testament promise from Christ (Luke 24:46-49) that the Apostles would be “clothed with power” before they would be sent out to spread the Gospel.

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