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Sunday 11 May Pentecost

May we feel your presence this day, Holy Spirit, like the people gathered on that Day of Pentecost.

May you rush into our hearts and inebriate our souls. May we be empowered by your Spirit to live a life more faithful to God. Amen.

What is Pentecost ?

Pentecost is the festival when Christians celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit. It is celebrated on the Sunday 50 days after Easter.
Pentecost is regarded as the birthday of the Christian church, and the start of the church's mission to the world.
The Holy Spirit is the third part of the Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit that is the way Christians understand God.
Pentecost is a happy festival. Ministers in church often wear robes with red in the design as a symbol of the flames in which the Holy Spirit came to earth.
The symbols of Pentecost are those of the Holy Spirit and include: flames, wind, the breath of God and a Dove.

The first Pentecost
Pentecost comes from a Jewish harvest festival called Shavuot. The apostles were celebrating this festival when the Holy Spirit descended on them. It sounded like a very strong wind, and it looked like tongues of fire. The apostles then found themselves speaking in foreign languages, inspired by the Holy Spirit. People passing by at first thought that they must be drunk, but the apostle Peter told the crowd that the apostles were full of the Holy Spirit.

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The Lectionary - Thinking Ahead (Click here for the whole of Year A)

11 May

Pentecost

May 18

Trinity Sunday

May 25

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary

1 June

Ninth Sunday in Ordinary

8 June

Tenth Sunday in Ordinary

15 June

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary

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Woodland Burial at Keysoe Bedfordshire

The St Albans Woodland Burial Trust now offers woodland burial at our woodland site in Keysoe Bedfordshire. The location in beautiful countryside has been consecrated to provide the greatest protection available in English law. The woodland is open to people irrespective of faith or religious beliefs.

Burial in consecrated ground is seldom offered these days, instead people purchase only lease on grave space for a period of perhaps 70 years. Consecration gives the greatest protection in English law that once laid to rest you can do so in peace!