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Pentecost 13  If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2  If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. 3  If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. 4  Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, 5  doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6  doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7  bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8  Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it wi...

  PENTECOST   Pentecost is a prominent feast in the calendar of Ancient Israel celebrating the giving of the Law on Sinai, and also later in the Christian liturgical year commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the remaining eleven Apostles of Christ. In the Eastern churches, Pentecost can also refer to the fifty days between Easter and Pentecost, hence the book containing the liturgical texts for Paschaltide is called the Pentecostarion. The feast is also called Whit Sunday, Whitsun, or Whit, especially in England, where the following Monday was traditionally a holiday. Pentecost is celebrated seven weeks (50 days) after Easter Sunday, hence its name. Pentecost falls on the tenth day after Ascension Thursday.