12
09
2025
2025
Pentecost: the birth of the Church and the breath of a new world
A festival rooted in biblical traditionBefore being a Christian event, Pentecost was a Jewish festival. It was celebrated fifty days after Passover, in memory of the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai. At that time, Jews from the Diaspora flocked to Jerusalem to commemorate God's covenant with his people. This setting gives full meaning to Christian Pentecost: at the very moment when Israel recalls the Old Covenant, God makes a New Covenant, no longer engraved on tablets of stone, but inscribed in hearts by the Holy Spirit.
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