Celebrating the gift of the Holy Spirit

June 4th is Pentecost Sunday.  Pentecost is celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Easter.  The name comes from the Greek word for fiftieth, pentekoste, as it follows Easter by fifty days.  Greek-speaking Jews called the Jewish Feast of Weeks the Day of Pentecost.  Acts 2 tells how the anxious and fearful disciples, who had gathered …

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