Within the group of disciples of Jesus Christ, following as narrated in Acts 2:1-11 Pentecost lost Hebrew meaning to designate the descent of the Holy Spirit, which is as the new law given by God to his followers, and how the birth of the Church beginning with the early Christian community in Jerusalem, or "communities of Jerusalem" (Acts 2.42 to 48).
The anniversary of this event is become a fixture on the liturgical calendar, is also called the Feast of the Holy Spirit and the ends of the Easter holidays.
that Pentecost was born in the apostolic period is stated in the seventh fragment attributed to Irenaeus. In Tertullian (De bapt. Xix) the festival is already well defined. The Gallic pilgrim gives a detailed account of a solemn way in which it was observed in Jerusalem (Peregrin. Silviæ, ed. Geyer, iv). The Apostolic Constitutions (V, xx, 17) say that Pentecost lasts one week, but in the West began to celebrate the eighth in the later period. In Berno of Reichenau (1048 +) shows that it was discussed in his day if you were to Pentecost or not an octave.
In the past, which could not be catechumens baptized at Easter were baptized during the vigil of Pentecost, and so the ceremonies of the Sabbath eve of Pentecost were similar to those of Holy Saturday. The Feast of Pentecost - Pentecost Sunday, including Easter Monday as public holiday for all civil effects - is celebrated with special importance in Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Holland and Luxembourg. In South Tyrol, including the capital of Bolzano, the Whit Monday public holiday is officially. Sunday is called in Anglo-white (Whitesunday) because of the white garments worn by those who were baptized during the vigil.
In the past during the entire week, the courts are not met and servile work was forbidden. The Council of Constance (1094) limited this prohibition to the first three days of the week. The Sabbath rest of Tuesday was abolished in 1771, and in many areas of the mission also on Monday, to be repealed for the entire Church by Pope Pius X in 1911. Before the liturgical reform of the liturgical rank of Monday and Tuesday of the week of Pentecost was double first class.
The liturgical celebration of Pentecost believed to date back to the first century, although there is evidence that was observed, unlike Easter, the verse of 1 Cor 16.8 probably refers to the Jewish holiday.
Today the liturgy celebrates in the degree of solemnity.
The Office of Pentecost before the liturgical reform had only one eighth Night throughout the week. A third is sung instead of the usual hymn Veni Creator, because it is the third time that the Holy Spirit descended.
The Mass of Pentecost has a sequence, the Veni Sancte Spiritus attributed to Pope Innocent III or, more likely to Langhton of Stephen archbishop of Canterbury.
The color of the vestments is red, a symbol of the Holy Spirit or tongues of fire.
The Feast of Pentecost is a feast mobile, so that its date depends on the date of From its calculation of Easter and Passover. Since we celebrated Easter on different dates from different Christian denominations, as a consequence, Pentecost is celebrated on different dates from Western and Eastern traditions of Christianity.
still existed in Italy in the nineteenth century the use of raining down on worshipers at the Mass of Pentecost, the petals of red roses, to evoke the descent of the Holy Spirit. That is also the festival took the name of "Easter pink," that has remained in some areas of central and southern Italy, [5], or Pascha rosatum. In Alto Adige, also on Sunday after Corpus Domini is celebrated on the Sacred Heart. Religious processions are held with bands and companies of "marksmen". On the evening of Sunday the Sacred Heart on the tops of the mountains are lit fires in the shape of crosses and hearts: the fires of the Sacred Heart.
The Italian word Easter comes from the red color of the red vestments used at Pentecost.
