A Treasure To Be Shared

Wesleyan Methodists on parade. Note the uniformed band! hwit adj: white, bright, shining ( hwitan dat sing neut) Catholic England On þisan Eastron com se kyng to Wincestre, & þa wæron Eastra on .x. kalendas Aprilis, & sona æfter þam com Mathild seo hlæfdie hider to land, & Ealdred arcebiscop hig gehalgode to cwene on Westmynstre on Hwitan Sunnandæg. This Easter came the king to Winchester; and Easter was then on the tenth before the calends of April. Soon after this came the Lady Matilda hither to this land; and Archbishop Eldred hallowed her to queen at Westminster on Whit Sunday. - Anglo-Saxon D Chronicle for 1067 Whitsun, Whitsunday, Pentecost, the descent of the Holy Spirit... an occasion for parading, processing, dancing, feasting. Imagine droves of people celebrating the Faith... publicly... without fear of reprisal. And all who believed were together and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need....

OLW Cathedral Houston, The Vigil of Pentecost (Whitsun Eve) 2020 https://vimeo.com/422826984 We in the Ordinariate are so very blessed to have retained the Octave of Pentecost, which we are currently enjoying. https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/pentecost-octave-where-art-thou [...] “The Pentecost octave is extremely ancient — developed in the first millennium — and was always seen as ranking beside Christmas and Easter as one of the three great octaves of the liturgical year,” said (Dr) Peter Kwasniewski(.) Pentecost used to be particularly well known for being one of the times in the liturgical year for Christian Initiation, based on Acts 2:38-41, and the octave was significant as the neonati appropriately wore white robes (hence the alternative name for Pentecost of ‘White Sunday’, or Whitsun, until the following Saturday. [...]  The Pentecost octave continues to be celebrated in the Extraordinary form of the Roman Rite and in the liturgy of the (....

As a relative newcomer to the Ordinariate experience, each Mass is yet another opportunity to become enamoured in the beauty of Divine Worship. Ordinariate Masses make explicit the noble Anglican Patrimony now wed to the Catholic Church. We are now in the Octave of Pentecost, a relatively new experience for yours truly. The inclusion of this Octave, which is missing from the Ordinary Form, makes complete sense. Pentecost is or should be as well celebrated as Christmas, which has its own octave. Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman called the breviary offices of Pentecost and its octave perhaps the “grandest” of the liturgical year. “The Pentecost octave is extremely ancient — developed in the first millennium — and was always seen as ranking beside Christmas and Easter as one of the three great octaves of the liturgical year,” said Peter Kwasniewski, associate professor of theology at Wyoming Catholic College.   Pentecost used to be particularly well known fo...