Its remembrance is celebrated today by many Christian churches on Pentecost Sunday. To better understand and recognize the ...

After that, the living Jesus spent time with the apostles and promised to send the Holy Spirit to them, and ascended back into heaven. Pentecost is the day for Christians to remember the coming of ...

And in the New Testament as well, the Pentecostal feast is fulfilled and made new by the coming of the "new law," the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Christ. When the day of Pentecost ...

The Holy Ghost appeared at times under the form of a dove, and again under the form of tongues of fire; for, being a pure spirit without ... is called Whitsunday, or Pentecost.

Pentecost, said Fr. Louis Cona of New York, is the "preeminent celebration of the Holy Spirit" — and is celebrated on Sunday, ...