ITEMS OF INTEREST 

Pentecost                                                                                                                                       

Fifty days after Jesus' resurrection, the disciples assembled in what may have been the same upper room where the Last Supper took place. There they were surprised by an experience that empowered them to proclaim the gospel. It was, they said, as if a fire fell on them and filled them. Like Ester, Pentecost is a day for baptisms and a day to celebrate the Holy Spirit who renews and strengthens Christians for ministry. To represent the fire of the Spirit, Pentecost is also the one Sunday of the Christian year when the vestments and hangings are always red.     

Source: Christopher L. Webber, Welcome to Sunday (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing 2003) p.55.