Pentecost, said Fr. Louis Cona of New York, is the "preeminent celebration of the Holy Spirit" — and is celebrated on Sunday, May 19, seven weeks after Easter. Cona is a priest of the Diocese of ...

Pentecost comes from the ancient Greek ... day celebrating the arrival of the Holy Spirit on believers in Jesus Christ. The biblical account, found in Acts 2, tells the account of a sudden change ...

Luke uses this prophetic statement as an outline for Acts. Once the apostles are "baptized with the Holy Spirit" (1:5) at Pentecost (2), they evangelize ... and the Spirit comes upon the Gentiles ...

An illustration of Pentecost and the outpouring ... All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.” (Acts 2) After this, the ...