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God’s Blessings to you as we celebrate the Season of Pentecost.

Rev. Joanne Bond, Pastor

The Day of Pentecost – June 8, 2025 

A principal festival of the church year, celebrating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples fifty days after Easter (Acts 2:1-4).  This day is also known as Whitsunday, a reference to the white garments of Baptism.

In Judaism, the fiftieth day after Passover was celebrated as an agricultural festival, known as the feast of Weeks (Exodus 34:22; Deuteronomy 16:9-10).

The Christian Pentecost was celebrated as a festival by the late fourth century.

Pentecost is the final day of the Easter season.  This festival commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit and Baptism of 3,000 converts.

Red is the liturgical color of the day.[i] 

Season after Pentecost – 2025 

The weeks of the church year between the Day of Pentecost (Sunday, June 8 this year) and the First Sunday in Advent (November 30 this year).

The season after Pentecost, constituting the second half of the church year, was the last part of the liturgical calendar to be organized.  Through the first several centuries, the Sundays of this time were grouped around particular saints’ days:  Sundays after St. Peter and St. Paul, Sundays after St. Lawrence, Sundays after St. Cyprian or St. Michael.  Only four Sundays were identified as Sundays after Pentecost.  The Gregorian Sacramentary of the eighth century was the first to use the title “Sundays after Pentecost” for all the Sundays of this half of the church year.

The First Sunday after Pentecost is celebrated as The Holy Trinity (June 15 this year); the last Sunday is celebrated as Christ the King (November 23 this year).

Green is the liturgical color for the season except for those Sundays when a lesser festival or commemoration is celebrated.[ii]

[i] Ralph R. Van Loon, S. Anita Stauffer, “Worship Wordbook, A Practical Guide for Parish Worship”, Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis, 1995, 67.

[ii] Ralph R. Van Loon, S. Anita Stauffer, “Worship Wordbook, A Practical Guide for Parish Worship”, Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis, 1995, 140.