Our theme this week is the Holy Spirit. This last weekend we celebrated the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the church. The Holy Spirit was gifted to the church at Pentecost, which occurred 50 days after Easter. The name comes appropriately from the Greek word meaning ‘Fiftieth’.

Pentecost is also one of three Jewish pilgrim festivals, and is also known as the Feast of Weeks, as it occurred seven weeks after the Jewish festival of Passover.