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Do you wish: Happy Whitsun!

Rumpel said:
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.
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who cares what people call it?
 
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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very surprising from you
 
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! :love:
 
Rumpel said:
Do you wish: Happy Whitsun!
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Come to think of it, Whitsun should be nearly as important as Christmas.
Whereas Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Christ, Whitsun celebrates the birth of Christianity as a religion.

One more interesting thing, since I can't seem not to draw parallels with old pagan customs.
In Scandinavia, Whitsun is not just connected to a particular Sunday, but to the sun itself. It is said that the sun dances at Whitsun, and it is an old custom to go out early and eat breakfast and drink alcohol outdoors while watching the morning sun "dance" (ritual consumption of alcohol plays a part in most old Proto-Germanic feasts). Undoubtedly there is some relation to the old springtime rituals, but I wonder if the old Christian "God depicted as the Sun" heresy may not also have some connection to it?
 
Rumpel said:
@ Whitsun

Or do you say "Pentecoste" or some such word?
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In Scandinavia we say "Pinse", derived from the Greek "pentēkostḗ" meaning "50th" (day after easter).

It coincides with the Hebrew "Shauvot", which was when they got the Torah on Mt. Sinai, 7 weeks after Pesach. (For anyone who cares about that sort of coincidence...)
 
What I do not like is the "pentecostal movement".
I think they give "Whitsun" a bad name.

In German those terms are very much alike:

Whitsun = Pfingsten
pentecostals = Pfingstler
 
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