A. This feast is called also Pentecost because Pentecost means the fiftieth; and the Holy Ghost came down upon the Apostles fifty days after the resurrection of Our Lord. Q. 428. How did the Holy ...

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This removal also corresponds to those days on which the Eucharist is not ... calendars are calculated the same way, which is why Pentecost falls on a Sunday and not on a Monday.