What's that?
Oh, I figured it was a Pentecostal thing. Anyway, here's the story:
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Do you know what Whit Sunday and Whit Monday are? Most of the Christian Teens that I talk to don't know what Christian Holy Day Celebration they are. In fact, I am not sure that I have ever been in a Whit Sunday or Whit Monday Celebration.
Well - both days are a celebration of Pentecost, which in Greek, means the fiftieth day. Pentecost takes place 50 days after Easter, which is the Jewish feast of Shavuot. Whit Sunday and Monday have been celebrated since the 3rd Century AD. Many modern scholars believe that many of the traditions and celebrations were borrowed from pagan celebrations of the Spring.
Whit Sunday and Monday, or Pentecost celebrates the descent of the Holy Ghost, as documented in the Book of Acts (2:1 -11):
When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking in his own language. Utterly amazed, they asked: "Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native language? Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs--we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!" (NIV)
While this is a celebration of the receiving of the Holy Spirit, the celebration does not come without controversy. Many churches debate what the Bible means by 'tongues' and its usage. Some churches believe that you must have this gift of the Spirit to be a Christian, or to show evidence of fulfillment of the Holy Spirit. Other denominations believe that it should be used privately, while others believe that it must be used publicly. Some believe that the gift of tongues is the ability to speak in other known human languages, while others believe that it is a language that only God can understand.
- Source: http://christianteens.about.com/library/weekly/aa060101a.htm
In case you're wondering, I was trying to find a holiday about which nobody had yet made a comic...
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