And in the New Testament as well, the Pentecostal feast is fulfilled and made new by the coming of the "new law," the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Christ. When the day of Pentecost ...

Pentecost takes place 50 days after Easter. It celebrates the outpouring of God's Holy Spirit on the community after Jesus ascended into heaven. The story from the Acts of the Apostles describes this ...

Summary: The Christian festival of Pentecost is celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Easter. It refers to the Holy Spirit descending among the apostles - just as Jesus had said it would.

After that, the living Jesus spent time with the apostles and promised to send the Holy Spirit to them, and ascended back into heaven. Pentecost is the day for Christians to remember the coming of ...

This March 5, Christians around the world have begun Lent, a forty-day period of spiritual preparation leading up to Easter.

Pentecost, said Fr. Louis Cona of New York, is the "preeminent celebration of the Holy Spirit" — and is celebrated on Sunday, ...

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This feast is called also Pentecost because Pentecost means the ... that after His Ascension He would send the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth, to teach them all truths and to abide with them ...

When the day of Pentecost came, as Jesus promised, the Holy Spirit descended upon the 120 praying in the upper room in Jerusalem. The sound was as a violent wind, ...