Pentecost

The Pentecost season accounts for approximately one-half of the church year. Because of its length, this portion of the liturgical calendar loses the conciseness of the other festival seasons. In one sense, though, the length of the Pentecost season is appropriate. Pentecost is the time of the church, living under the New Covenant. For approximately six months, then, the attention of the church is directed toward the living out of this new relationship. The church seeks to demonstrate the full implication of God’s redemptive act in every nook and cranny of individual and social life. It becomes the embodiment of the energizing power of God, giving birth to a new heaven and a new earth.

Pentecost both celebrates the outpouring of God’s Spirit and through that Spirit draws individual…