Did the Roman calendar have 8 week days? What is the history of All Saints Day? What is the Jewish calendar? What is 570 CE in the Islamic calendar? Is Labor Day a Pagan holiday? What holidays do Muslims celebrate? What does shomer Shabbat mean? What is the Day of Pentecost in the...
It’s that’s for which we pray every week: “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” The week after next, Pentecost Sunday, we’ll read from Acts Chapter 2 about the coming of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit that empowers us to strive for that goal of...
8But I will stay on at Ephesus until Pentecost, 9because a great door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many who oppose me. 10When Timothy comes, see to it that he has nothing to fear while he is with you, for he is carrying on the work of the Lord, just as...
These included: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, and Pentecost. Dr. Demarest talked excitedly about how the seasons of the Church Year could enrich the worship of a church as well as one’s private devotions. I had never heard anything like this. I was intrigued, but...
Why did he step in? Well, Easter. It was coming later in the year over time, and he fretted that events related to Easter like the Pentecost might bump up against pagan festivals. The pope wanted Easter to remain in the spring.
After an SFS seminar, I can count on taking away something practical I can implement on the same day. Today was no different. It’s fantastic to tap into the decades of knowledge and value that Steve provides and to chat with the attendees afterward so we can all help each other grow....
this church a couple of weeks ago, she learned that they had scheduled Youth Sunday for this week, which is Pentecost. The youth were told they didn’t have to follow the liturgical calendar, and they aren’t, so as my friend jokingly described it, “the church had cancelled Pentecost....
Peter points to that very day he was preaching as a moment of Joel’s prophecy coming on the day of Pentecost and we might also claim Joel’s words in other times of the Spirit being poured out. The Reformation, the Great Awakening, or any moment in history or in the future still, ...
Administratively part of the Old Town, Užupis is widely regarded to be a separate neighborhood. This 19th-century district beyond the river Vilnia is alongside the former road to Polotsk city (today in Belarus). Under the Soviet rule, many Užupis buildings were abandoned. After independ...
The candidate's poll ratings fell abruptly after the banking scandal. Rise To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore. Fall To occur (on a certain day of the week, da...