Happy Birthday to the Church
Pentecost Sunday
May 23, 2021
(Why red??)
So… on The Day of Pentecost in the church year, fifty days of Easter and ten days after the Ascension, the clergy wear RED vestments to signify the work of the Spirit. It is also a custom in many churches for the people in the congregation to wear RED on the Day of Pentecost as well. We wear RED to remind us of the fire of the Spirit.
On Pentecost Sunday, the Holy Spirit filled the Church with power and added 3,000 new believers. The account in Act 2 reports that, after Jesus ascended into heaven, Jesus’ followers were gathered together for the Feast of Harvest (aka Pentecost), and the Holy Spirit “filled the whole house where they were sitting” (Acts 2:2). “All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them” (Acts 2:4).
O Come Down, O Love Divine
Words: Bianco da Siena (d. 1434?); tr. Richard Frederick Littledale (1833-1890), alt.
Music: William H. Harris (1883-1973)
Words: Latin, 9th cent.; tr. John Cosin (1594-1672); para. of Veni Creator Spiritus
Music: Veni Creator Spiritus, plainsong, Mode 8; acc. Charles Winfred Douglas (1867-1944)
Allison Stewart Bateman, soprano
Valerie Pool, Soprano
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Closing Hymn: 115
Spirit of the Living God [Lift Every Voice and Sing II]
Words and Music: Daniel Iverson (1890-1977)
Allison Stewart Bateman, soprano
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