The Gospel passage for Peter and Paul is Matthew 16: “You are Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church.” Leo XIV began ...

Shavuot, coming 50 days after Passover, is when rabbis said God gave Moses the Ten Commandments. Christians know it as Pentecost.

Pentecost, also called “Whitsunday” in many other Christian denominations, corresponds to Jewish feast of Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks). In Greece, Pentecost is one of the “Great Christian Feasts” of ...

Shavuot is when divine knowledge and instruction is focused on in the Jewish faith. Shavuot and Pentecost are both focused on fifty days. Pentecost occurs fifty days after Jesus’ resurrection.

June 29th is one of the most significant days in the Orthodox Church’s calendar, as it commemorates the memory of the Holy ...

It was called the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot), and in the Old Testament was originally an agricultural festival celebrating and giving thanks for the "first fruits" of the early spring harvest (Lev 23, ...

May 13: The Feast of the Ascension, a Christian holiday celebrating Jesus’s ascension into heaven. May 16-18: Shavuot, a Jewish holiday that commemorates the spring harvest and the giving of the Torah ...

The New Testament gives a glorious account of Jesus's ascending into heaven. He rose from the dead at the end of Passover and stayed on earth for forty days before ascending to paradise. Ten days ...