Pentecost

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2 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. - Acts 2:1-4 NRSV

A blessed day of Pentecost to everyone! :)
 

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Since I was on my own today (other family members off doing fun stuff), I was able to hike down to the Union Church down the street - it is much like the Meth/Presb church I grew up in. They made sure everyone had red to wear for Pentecost by handing out red ribbons and pins to anyone not wearing red. And the children's sermon was a brief retelling of the passage from Acts (the non-denom I usually attend doesn't have a children's sermon in service - the kids are rarely seen in the sanctuary), and the sermon itself was centered on the same passage.
Being able to attend this service was a blessing to me and I wish I could go there more often, but it is not to be at this time.
 
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Had a great service with a special focus on the Holy Spirit today! Glad to see others had a great day as well.


2 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. - Acts 2:1-4 NRSV

A blessed day of Pentecost to everyone! :)

Amen!
 
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Do Methodist elders still wear red on Pentecost? I left for Orthodoxy years ago due to an abusive priest at one local parish getting on my case because I was a traditionslist, and the parish where I was baptized abandoning the organ and hymns for a praise band, but I still love what Methodism was to me growing up.

One bit of culture shock: in the Eastern Orthodox, the liturgical color for Pentecost is usually green, and some parishes only break out the green vestments twice a year, the ither time being Palm Sunday. The church is decked out in greenery for Pentecost. The theology is that the leaves represent the tongues of fire.

In the Syriac Orthodox church, there are no formal liturgical colors but red, gold and white predominate. The Pentecost service is a lot of fun however because palm fronds are immersed in Holy Water and then the priest attacks members of the congregation with the fronds. This is not like the Asperges Mea at the start of a Roman Catholic Latin mass, where you get likely sprinkled, but rather a full on, Splash Mountain style dousing. It is very popular with the laity who encourage the priest to douse them. In the native lands of the Syriac and Armenian Orthodox (Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon and Israel/Palestine), there is a popular custom among the Christians to throw buckets of water on each other after church on Pentecost.
 
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Do Methodist elders still wear red on Pentecost? I left for Orthodoxy years ago due to an abusive priest at one local parish getting on my case because I was a traditionslist, and the parish where I was baptized abandoning the organ and hymns for a praise band, but I still love what Methodism was to me growing up.

One bit of culture shock: in the Eastern Orthodox, the liturgical color for Pentecost is usually green, and some parishes only break out the green vestments twice a year, the ither time being Palm Sunday. The church is decked out in greenery for Pentecost. The theology is that the leaves represent the tongues of fire.

And another: in the Syriac Orthodox church, of which I am proud to be a member, there are no formal liturgical colors but red, gold and white predominate. The Pentecost service is a lot of fun however because palm fronds are immersed in Holy Water and then the priest attacks members of the congregation with the fronds. This is not like the Asperges Mea at the start of a Roman Catholic Latin mass, where you get likely sprinkled, but rather a full on, Splash Mountain style dousing. It is very popular with the laity who encourage the priest to douse them. In the native lands of the Syriac and Armenian Orthodox (Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon and Israel/Palestine), there is a popular custom among the Christians to throw buckets of water on each other after church on Pentecost.

However I do hope our old Methodist custom of the elders wearing red vestments on Pentecost is still in place.
 
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I wore a red stole for Pentecost. On Sunday morning I always wear a stole that matches the color of the season. The other two services at my church are more informal and so I'm not vested. So I wore a red shirt instead. :)
 
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I wore a red stole for Pentecost. On Sunday morning I always wear a stole that matches the color of the season. The other two services at my church are more informal and so I'm not vested. So I wore a red shirt instead. :)

Do you ever wear copes or chasubles? Also I assume you wear an alb under the stole? Copes look inelegant worn right atop a clergy shirt. Our Syriac priests wear stunning vestments. I myself collect vestments as a hobby and loan them out to clergy friends. I have two red stoles in fact of different origins. This week Im getting a Coptic alnpb and deacons stole which I hope to actually use in the near future at the Coptic parish I mainly attend (the Syriac cathedral is too far to make it every Sunday).

By the way, the Eastern Orthodox use gold rather than green as their default liturgical color; they dont have a season of "ordinary time" and vestments and paraments can be changed multiple times in a week; so if a feast of a martyr comes up for example and its July, red paraments will be draped over the gold paraments. In Lent and Holy Week, black is worn on weekdays, dark red or purple on weekends, bright green on Palm Sunday, and dark red on Maundy Thursday, and midway through the vesperal liturgy on the morning of Holy Saturday the black paraments are removed and replaced by white, while the priest changes vestments behind the iconostasis, a complex task given that it involves changing nearly ten pieces of attire, during the singing if one of the longer hymns, in the Slavonic praxis. The deacons have to change too. Fortunately the inner cassock worn under all the layers of vestments is not changed and is always black.

I will say gold works better than green as a default color, if you buy good quality cloth. Inferior gold vestments look like faded yellow.
 
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Only a few UMC pastors wear chasubles. I've never seen a UMC pastor wear a cope. I usually wear a simple alb, cincture and stole. Sometimes I wear a black pulpit robe. But Methodists are moving away from robes in preference for the alb as the robe is really academic dress rather than a vestment.
 
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