05/17/2026
Ascensiontide has only ten days. It has only one Sunday. That Sunday has a name although it is not printed in The Book of Common Prayer. It is Expectation Sunday. On Ascension Day Jesus told his Apostles to go back from Bethany to Jerusalem and wait.
They obeyed and ten days later there was the outpouring of the Holy Spirit! It was the day of Pentecost. Study about it and its role in the Jewish tradition. However, it was to be enriched so much that I cannot more than touch on it here: the mighty wind , the tongues of fire, the gift of languages in such a way that pilgrims from other places understood that God was being praised.
