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With regret we wish to inform you that there will be no Holy Mass celebrated in the parish until further notice.     If you like to have the Parish Bulletin emailed to you, please contact us on Office@paramodcath.com.au or bulletin@paramodcath.com.au
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updated4Strengthened by the Holy Spirit: Pentecost: Today the church celebrates the feast of Pentecost, the feast of the Holy Spirit. Both the Jews and the Christians now celebrate Pentecost, though not for the same reasons. Along with the Feast of the Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles, Pentecost was one of the major feasts of the Chosen People. The word Pentecost is Greek for pentecostes which means “fiftieth.” The feast received this name because it was celebrated fifty days after the Feast of the Passover. Another name for the Jewish Pentecost is Shebuot or “The Feast of Weeks “(the “week” of seven Sabbaths between Passover and Pentecost, in thanksgiving for the Passover freeing of the Chosen People from Egyptian slavery and their return to the Promised Land). Originally, this feast was a thanksgiving festival for the completion of the harvest. Later, the Jews added to the Feast of Pentecost the element of Yahweh’s Covenant with Noah, which took place fifty days after the great deluge. Still later, they made this feast an occasion to thank God for His Sinaitic Covenant with Moses, which occurred fifty days after the beginning of the Exodus from Egypt. For Christians, Pentecost marks the end and the goal of the Easter season. It is a memorial of the day the Holy Spirit descended on the apostles and the Virgin Mary in the form of fiery tongues, an event that took place fifty days after the Resurrection of Jesus. The Paschal mystery: The Passion, the Death, the Resurrection, and the Ascension of Jesus; culminates in the sending of the Holy Spirit on Jesus’ disciples. The feast also commemorates the official inauguration of the Christian Church with the apostolic preaching of St. Peter, which resulted in the conversion of 3000 Jews to the Christian Faith. Pentecost is, thus, the official birthday of the Church. >>btn_read_more

 

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