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  2. What Is Pentecost and Why Do Some Christians Celebrate It? - AOL

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    Pentecost Meaning In Greek, the word Pentecost literally means "fiftieth." According to Faith Giant : "The Pentecost has a variety of names in the Bible: Shavuot, The Feast of Weeks, the First ...

  3. Pentecost season - Wikipedia

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    The Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church does not include a Pentecost season. Pentecost is considered the last day of the Easter season, and is followed by Ordinary Time. Traditionalist Catholicism has an eight-day Octave of Pentecost, followed by Sundays after Pentecost that continue through to the end of the liturgical year.

  4. Whit Monday - Wikipedia

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    In the Catholic Church, it is the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, marking the resumption of Ordinary Time. Whit Monday gets its English name from "Whitsunday", an English name for Pentecost, one of the three baptismal seasons. The origin of the name "Whit Sunday" is generally attributed to the white garments formerly ...

  5. Pentecost - Wikipedia

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    In the Roman Catholic liturgy, Pentecost marks the end and completion of the Easter season, and the birth or "great beginning" of the church. [58] Before the Second Vatican Council Pentecost Monday as well was a Holy Day of Obligation [citation needed] during which the Catholic Church addressed the newly baptized and confirmed. Since the ...

  6. Feasts of Jesus Christ - Wikipedia

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    Feasts of the Theotokos (Богородичные праздники; by definition same to Marian feast days, the actual set differs between Catholic and Orthodox Churches) Feasts of Saints While Easter is treated as Feast of Feasts, the following eight feasts of Christ are assigned the highest rank of the Great Feasts in the Eastern Orthodox ...

  7. Holy Spirit in Christian art - Wikipedia

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    The book of Acts describes the Holy Spirit descending on the apostles at Pentecost in the form of a wind and tongues of fire resting over the apostles' heads. Based on that account, the Holy Spirit is sometimes symbolized by a flame. [4]

  8. Veni Sancte Spiritus - Wikipedia

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    The dove: iconographic symbol of the Holy Spirit. Veni Sancte Spiritus (“Come, Holy Spirit”), sometimes called the “Golden Sequence” (Latin: Sequentia Aurea) is a sequence sung in honour of God the Holy Spirit, prescribed in the Roman Rite for the Masses of Pentecost Sunday. [1]

  9. Liturgical year - Wikipedia

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    The Church of England, Mother Church of the Anglican Communion, uses a liturgical year that is in most respects identical to that of the 1969 Catholic Common Lectionary. While the calendars contained within the Book of Common Prayer and the Alternative Service Book (1980) have no "Ordinary Time", Common Worship (2000) adopted the ecumenical ...