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Do you wish: Happy Whitsun!

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Do you wish: Happy Whitsun!

Here in Germany we do! We say: "Frohe Pfingsten!"

In the Anglo-Saxon world Whitsun seems to be forgotten holiday.
Lots of people do not even know the word "Whitsun".

One leaves Whitsun to those terrible "Pentecostals" who have completely perverted this holiday.
 
How the Whit Monday was lost:

Whit Monday was officially recognised as a bank holiday in the UK in 1871, but lost this status in 1972 when the fixed Spring Bank Holiday was created.
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Whitsun - Wikipedia

I think it's a pity and a disgrace.
 
Whit Monday is on the First of June this year.
 
It seems that Whitsun is completely unknown for pious Bible Christians.
Even though it is clearly mentioned in the Bible.
 
I try to keep this thread alive until Whitsun is nearer. :)
 
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I see that some know that Whitsun exists!
What has the poor word done wrong so that the Anglo-Saxon world has disregarded it and prefer that "posh" word "pentecostal".
 
@ pentecostal

Like many non-denominational churches, ours cherry-picked traditions and doctrine from other denominations, primarily the Pentecostals. Like Pentecostals, we were “charismatic,” which means that we believed in speaking in tongues. We also believed in sacred dance, which would manifest itself in women spontaneously (or, looking back, and considering their ballet slippers, maybe not-so-spontaneously) running up to the stage during the worship service. Overcome with the Holy Spirit (or the Holy Ghost), they would dance with their eyes closed to the mix of traditional hymns (“How Great Thou Art”), contemporary worship music (“Our God is an Awesome God”), and songs written by church members.

The men and some of the younger kids would dance sometimes, too, but just in the aisles. Some adults were dancers. Some adults were tongue-speakers. Some, like my parents, were too shy for either. But all of them closed their eyes and raised their hands to heaven, giving a curious child the chance to watch them unobserved. It was impossible to look away when your strict math teacher stood just a few feet from you, face twisted with ecstasy and speaking in tongues without pause or self-consciousness, as if it were an actual dialect. And I was fascinated by the different sounds they made: I can confirm that the default language of tongues does sound like “shaka-laka-lah,” but a lot of people got creative. Like the dancing, it was almost a contest to see who could worship the hardest while appearing the most natural. Maybe anything that involves performance naturally becomes a competition.
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I Faked Speaking in Tongues - The Awl

This pentecostal fraud and nonsense is a perversion of the good old Whitsun.
 
Rumpel said:
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That should tell you that nobody really cares. It is an old tradition from a time when Europe and England was Catholic, and it never made it to the US. Morris dancing is Whitsun tradition in England that also, thankfully, never made it to the US.
 
Glitch said:
That should tell you that nobody really cares. It is an old tradition from a time when Europe and England was Catholic
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I dis-agree.

Whitsun is not a special Catholic thing.
And then: Are there no Catholics in the USA and in Australia etc?
 
Whitsun in Russia:

Trinity Sunday is one of the most beloved and bright holidays of Russian people. Trinity Sunday (Whit Sunday, Pentecost, Day of the Descent of the Holy Spirit) is one of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox calendar, celebrated 50 days after Easter, on the 10th day of the Ascension Day. Celebration in honor of the Holy Trinity was legalized by the Church in the IV century. The cult of the Holy Trinity became extremely popular in Russia only in the XIV - XVI centuries, and it is connected with the activity of St. Sergius of Radonezh, the most revered saint among the people. In 1345 in honor of the Holy Trinity St. Sergius consecrated the monastery he founded for the schemamonks who habitually lived in seclusion.

Behind many holidays there is a cult of vegetation, which at this time begins to blossom. For Russians Pentecost is associated with birch, which has become a symbol of Russian nature. On Trinity Sunday Orthodox churches were decorated with fresh greens, worshipers were holding birch twigs and flowers during the service. On growing birches people usually curled branches, twisting them with each other or with flowers, grass, ribbons. Each farmhouse was decorated with a young birch tree and in homes twigs were put by the icon, or put on the shrine. After the holiday, dried twigs served as a protective charm for all ills and misfortunes.
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Trinity Sunday celebration in Vitoslavlitsy
 
Another interesting thing about Russian Whitsun:

Saturday before Trinity Day is the day of commemoration of the dead. People used to go to the graves of their relatives and swept them with small brooms made of green birch twigs, sanctified in the church. Souls were also commemorated with painted in green eggs. On the graves people left birch twigs, flowers, crumbled eggs, cakes and grain.
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Trinity Sunday celebration in Vitoslavlitsy
 
Maybe you know Whitsun better as shavuot?
 
And this is Shavuot:


Shavuot has a double significance. It marked the all-important wheat harvest in the Land of Israel (Exodus 34:22) and it commemorates the anniversary of the day when God gave the Torah to the nation of Israel assembled at Mount Sinai—although the association is not explicit in the Biblical text between the giving of the Torah (Matan Torah) and Shavuot.

The holiday is one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals of the Bible. The word Shavuot means "weeks" and it marks the conclusion of the Counting of the Omer. Its date is directly linked to that of Passover; the Torah mandates the seven-week Counting of the Omer, beginning on the second day of Passover, to be immediately followed by Shavuot. This counting of days and weeks is understood to express anticipation and desire for the giving of the Torah. On Passover, the people of Israel were freed from their enslavement to Pharaoh; on Shavuot, they were given the Torah and became a nation committed to serving God.[3] The yahrzeit of King David is traditionally observed on Shavuot. Hasidic Jews also observe the yahrzeit of the Baal Shem Tov.
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Shavuot - Wikipedia
 
I have read here that Whitsun is un-known in the USA?:confused:
Is Shavuot also unknown? :confused:
 
We have Tuesday before Whitsun.

Whitsun - the least known of religious feasts?

Seems it is missing the right lobby ....
 
What has poor Whit Sunday done that it is thus ignored? :(
 
It seems cool and fashionable to roll on the floor and scream like 10 idiots all at once - to show off that you are one of those over-pious Bible Christians.
and re-born!

But it seems out-dated and old-fashioned to celebrate Whitsun in a normal civilized way.

Or even use the old and un-fashionable word "Whitsun" instead of that stupid fashionable modern cool word: "pentecostal" :roll:


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As it is, today I wished somebody "Frohe Pfingsten! = Happy Whitsun!" on the phone!
It is the Friday before Whitsun now!
 
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So it is at present.

Maybe more on Sunday :)
 
Has anybody else ever wished anybody: Happy Whitsun! - or: Merry Whitsun!
 
Rumpel said:
Has anybody else ever wished anybody: Happy Whitsun! - or: Merry Whitsun!
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Now Whitsuntide is come you very well do know,
Come serve the Lord we must before we do go.
Come serve him truly with all your might and heart
And then from heaven your soul shall never depart.

How do you know how long we have to live?
For when we die oh then what would we give?
For being sure of having our resting place
When we have run our simple wretched race.

Down in those gardens where flowers grow in ranks,
Down on your knees and to the Lord give thanks.
Down on your knees and pray both night and day,
Pray unto the Lord that He will lead the way.

Come all those little children all in the streets we meet
All in their pastimes so even and complete
It's how you may hear them lie, boast, curse and swear
Before that they do know one word of any prayer.

Now we have brought you all this royal branch of oak,
God bless our Queen Victoria and all the royal folk
God bless our Queen and all this world beside
That the Lord may bless you all this merry Whitsuntide.
 
zyzygy said:


Now Whitsuntide is come you very well do know,
Come serve the Lord we must before we do go.
Come serve him truly with all your might and heart
And then from heaven your soul shall never depart.

How do you know how long we have to live?
For when we die oh then what would we give?
For being sure of having our resting place
When we have run our simple wretched race.

Down in those gardens where flowers grow in ranks,
Down on your knees and to the Lord give thanks.
Down on your knees and pray both night and day,
Pray unto the Lord that He will lead the way.

Come all those little children all in the streets we meet
All in their pastimes so even and complete
It's how you may hear them lie, boast, curse and swear
Before that they do know one word of any prayer.

Now we have brought you all this royal branch of oak,
God bless our Queen Victoria and all the royal folk
God bless our Queen and all this world beside
That the Lord may bless you all this merry Whitsuntide.
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I like it! :peace

I like it a lot! :peace
 
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