The Christian holiday of Pentecost, also known as “White Sunday” or “Whitsunday” or “Whitsun,” which is celebrated the 49th day (the seventh Sunday) after Easter Sunday. Pentecost 2020 falls on Sunday, 31 May.
Pentecost honors the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and various followers of Jesus Christ while they were in Jerusalem praising the Feast of Weeks, as portrayed in the Acts of the Apostles.
The holiday is additionally called “White Sunday” or “Whitsunday” or “Whitsun”, particularly in the United Kingdom, where traditionally the next day, Whit Monday, was likewise a public holiday (since 1971 fixed by statute on the last Monday in May).
In German, Pentecost is called Pfingsten, created through contracting the Greek term pen[te]k[os]te, and usually agrees with academic holidays and the start of numerous outdoor and springtime activities, for example, celebrations and organized outside exercises by youth associations. The Monday after Pentecost is a legitimate holiday in numerous European nations.
In Eastern Christianity, Pentecost can likewise allude to the whole fifty days of Easter through Pentecost inclusive; thus the book containing the liturgical texts is known as the “Pentecostarion”. Since its date relies upon the date of Easter, Pentecost is a “moveable feast”.
Pentecost is one of the Great Feasts of the Eastern Orthodox Church, a Solemnity in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, a Festival in the Lutheran Churches, and a Principal Feast in the Anglican Communion. Numerous Christian denominations give a special liturgy to this holy festival.
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