50 Days after Jesus' resurrection (and ten days after His Ascension), the apostles were gathered together, confused, scared, and contemplating their future purpose and mission.On Pentecost, a flame rested upon each apostle (but did not harm them), and they began to speak in tongues (...
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Had they not kept it, they would have missed out — would not have received the "firstfruits" of the Holy Spirit on the "day of the firstfruits" — just fifty days after Christ's ascension to His Father after His resurrection.
Pentecost always occurs 50 days after the death and resurrection of Jesus, and ten days after his ascension into heaven. Because Easter is not a fixed date, and Pentecost depends on the date of Easter, Pentecost is also a moveable day which can fall anywhere between May 10 and June 13 ...
Christians still recognize the days between Easter Sunday and Pentecost as a special, holy time of year. The English dubbed this period of time Eastertide, a season of the church year dedicated to the celebration of the Resurrection and the presence of the resurrected Christ among his followers...
At the 50th day of counting the special Holy Day is celebrated as the day of the giving of the Spirit, the Torah of fire from Mount Sinai and the gifting of the Spirit in Jerusalem 50 days after Messiah's resurrection. It is the holy day count from the death of the Passover lamb ...
Pentecost, according to Father Robert, is considered the birthday of the Church, celebrated 45 days after Jesus' resurrection. Sundays at Crame LAHORE -- The Christian community celebrated Pentecost Sunday with religious fervour across Pakistan. Christians celebrate Pentecost Sunday across Pakistan King...
Peter explained that they should repent (say they're sorry and stop doing bad things) and be baptized so that others would know that they believed in God and were trying to change. Now, because of Jesus death and his resurrection people could be forgiven and receive the Holy Spirit from ...
Pentecost (Whitsunday)A feast of the universal Church which commemorates the Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles, fifty days after the Resurrection of Christ, on the ancient Jewish festival called the "feast of weeks" or Pentecost (Exodus 34:22; Deuteronomy 16:10). Whitsunday is so ...
The disciples were together in Jerusalem (see also Jerusalem) after Jesus' Resurrection and return to heaven, fearful because he had left them. On that morning, however, “there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with...