Christians celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit on Sunday. Pentecost, held fifty days after Easter - next to Easter and Christmas - is the third largest Christian holiday, and its name comes from the Greek word pentekosté (fifty).
According to the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference (MKPK), Pentecost is also the celebration of the birth of the church and the missionary mission received from Christ.
On the occasion of the holiday Péter Erdő , Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, will present a Holy Mass at 11:30 a.m. in the Esztergom Basilica on Whit Sunday, András Veres , president of the MKPK, will lead the Pentecost ceremony at 10 a.m. in Győr's Assumption Cathedral.
In the statement of the MKPK, it was written: fifty days after Easter, God's spirit "poured out in a mysterious way, in the form of tongues of flame, on the mother of Jesus, Mary, and on the disciples", who were given the strength to be Jesus' witnesses in Jerusalem and throughout the world.
I touched on the fact that the history of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. According to the description, after they were filled with the Holy Spirit, the apostles preached the gospel to everyone in their own language.
They put it this way: "God shows with the miracle of languages the unity that connects people speaking different languages with the confession of a common faith." This is how the first Pentecostal Church was born, which is one, holy, Catholic - that is, universal - and apostolic.
They added: the Csiksomlyó farewell is held on the Saturday before Pentecost, which is one of the most significant religious and national celebrations in all of Hungary.
MTI
Photo: Pope Francis' Pentecost Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican (Photo: MTI/EPA/ANSA/Giuseppe Lami)
