Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.



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Posted: May 14 2005 at 5:05pm | IP Logged Quote momwise

Pentecost is the culmination of the Easter season and was once one of the biggest feasts of the year.

There are some very simple things you can do to celebrate with just a little preparation tonight....

Make a simple dove shape out of red and white papers. Hang these from the doorways, dining room light fixture and outdoor on the tree limbs.

Make 7 flames out of red paper and write the names of the 7 Gifts of the Holy Spirit on them: Wisdom, Understanding, (good)Counsel,Knowledge, Piety, Fortitude and Fear of the Lord...WUCKPFF    Make some smaller flames out of orange or pink and tack them with a little tape or a staple on top of the large flame. On Pentecost each of the children (or in smaller families parents or guests can pick one), after the family prays, will pick a flame and reveal the gift. These can be prayed for each morning or night until the next Pentecost. We've been doing this for 4 years and it's interesting how some children will get the same gift over and over.

Make a fruit salad!! Eat a dessert with red in it. Fire up the BBQ. Go outside and fly a kite or just soak up the wind.

Pray the Scriptural Rosary for the 3rd Glorious mystery.

Please leave your easy ideas here for us.

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Posted: May 14 2005 at 6:59pm | IP Logged Quote Angie Mc

Light Tiki (sp?) torches when dark .

Dress in red for Mass and for the day.

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Posted: May 14 2005 at 7:13pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM

Serve chicken, cornish hens or some other kind of winged bird, to remind us of doves and the Holy Spirit. My dh had hunted for pheasants on Thanksgiving, and I was hoping to serve them today, but we're going on a pilgrimage to Seton Shrine with friends, so I'll save the idea for later.

The fruit salad idea...include 12 fruits, to remember the 12 fruits of the Holy Spirit.

I've always loved Florence Berger's Cooking for Christ section on her picnic for Pentecost.

Pentecost Favors

Family Celebration of Pentecost

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Posted: May 14 2005 at 10:45pm | IP Logged Quote Robin

Thanks for the links, Jenn! I'm going to be making the birthday cake tomorrow morning. I went shopping today and without even planning anything for Pentecost I bought all the things I needed (not knowing when or what I was going to do with them): white frosting, strawberries, white candles... How good God is!
I'm also going to make the cards with the gifts and fruits of the Spirit for our family members to pick. I've never thought of doing this at home even though we do it every year at Carmel.

May everyone have a blessed Pentecost and be filled with the fire of Divine Love!

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Posted: May 15 2005 at 8:48pm | IP Logged Quote MichelleW

We are going to go through our Wedding pictures and talk about how Christ is the Bridegroom (like Daddy) and the Church is His Bride (like Mommy). We've not tried this before and are not sure the kids will "get" it, but they love to look at pictures of us when we were young, so either way it'll be fun...
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Posted: May 15 2005 at 9:15pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM

Father Francis Weiser in his Holyday Book described how Pentecost was celebrated in Medieval times.
In medieval times the figure of a dove was widely used to enact in a dramatic way the descent of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost Sunday. When the priest had arrived at the sequence, he sang the first words in a loud and solemn voice: Veni Sancte Spiritus (Come, Holy Ghost). Immediately there arose in the church a sound "as of a violent wind blowing" (Acts 2, 2). This noise was produced in some countries, like France, by the blowing of trumpets; in others by the choir boys, who hissed, hummed, pressed windbags, and rattled the benches. All eyes turned toward the ceiling of the church where from an opening called the "Holy Ghost Hole" there appeared a disc the size of a cart wheel, which slowly descended in horizontal position, swinging in ever-widening circles. Upon a blue background, broken by bundles of golden rays, it bore on its underside the figure of a white dove.

Meanwhile the choir sang the sequence. At its conclusion the dove came to rest, hanging suspended in the middle of the church. There followed a "rain" of flowers indicating the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and of water symbolizing baptism. In some towns of central Europe people even went so far as to drop pieces of burning wick or straw from the Holy Ghost Hole, to represent the flaming tongues of Pentecost. This practice, however, was eventually stopped because it tended to put the people on fire externally, instead of internally as the Holy Spirit had done at Jerusalem. In the thirteenth century in many cathedrals of France real white pigeons were released during the singing of the sequence and new around in the church while roses were dropped from the Holy Ghost Hole. (My emphasis added)

When I traveled a bit in Europe, I actually saw some of those Holy Ghost Holes from medieval times. It was neat to see!

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