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Today in the many churches here it is Pentecost, the festival of the birth of Christ’s Church.

I’m a descendant of both sides of the Church, both claim to being Catholic but they are of the two sides of the Great Schism of the eleventh century. As I mentioned earlier my father is Roman Catholic and my mother is Romanian Orthodox.

I went to church this morning, to celebrate Pentecost but in the Roman Rite. So my skirt was long enough to cover my knees, and it covered my shoulders too, and I wore what is known as a mantilla. Since I am unwed my mantilla is white, married women tend to wear black, though I have seen married women wearing blue.

The priest spoke about this festival for the birth of the church in that upper room where the Holy Spirit visited the disciples and apostles who had gathered as Jesus had instructed them to before his ascension into Heaven. It is always inspiring to revisit these Bible verses.
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Yes, Pentecost is significant because it's when the Holy Spirit empowered the disciples, enabling them to preach the Gospel and begin the Church's mission.

The text in Acts 2:1-2 mentions the disciples being "together in one place" when the Holy Spirit descended, but it doesn't specify the location as an upper room. Acts 2:41 states "They then that received his word were baptized, and there were added unto them in that day about three thousand souls." That's really amazing.
That is a beautiful story in the New Testament, about the Holy Spirit descending and about the disciples finding they can speak to people who are in Jerusalem as pilgrims from all over the known world, and be understood.
In Judaism we just celebrated Shavuot, which is historically the same as Pentecost, last week. It is nice when holidays overlap.
TheWildEcho · 61-69, M
Peter's message was amazing, and the peoples response even more so! You might have expected the people to get angry and even stone the apostles but instead they wanted to know how to be saved!
Paulanadja · 18-21, F
I agree it is very inspiring
Do you basically celebrate the major religious holidays twice, about two weeks apart?
Zinvalla · 26-30, F
@ElwoodBlues Why do people assume this?
@Zinvalla I didn't assume, I asked. But I'm aware that those two calendars tend to be offset about two weeks.
@Zinvalla They assume this because the Eastern church typically has not adopted the Gregorian calendrical reform, so it keeps getting further out of synch with the astronomical events keeping track of time.

 
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