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I am quite certain that most, if not all, of us know about the celebration of Pentecost. The image that comes to mind is always that of the Holy Spirit raining down gifts on the Apostles. However, how many us know the actual origin of this celebration? Pentecost is a Jewish feast that has been celebrated since the Old Testament, being called the Feast of Harvest or the Feast of Weeks in Jewish tradition.
The early Christians kept the feast because they were mostly Jewish people and they retained the festival as part of their new tradition. What began as a feast celebrating the harvest of the land evolved into a “spiritual” harvest of the land. We can see this in the reading from the Acts of the Apostles where the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles and they began to speak in foreign languages.
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