Bamford Churches Together Whit Sunday Walk

Date published: 30/05/2007

Despite inclement weather around 150 people joined in the 'Bamford Churches Together' Whit Sunday Walk.

Sunday after Ascension Day, Pentecost is an important feast in the Christian liturgical year, celebrated the fiftieth day after Easter Sunday (the tenth day after Ascension Thursday.) Symbolically related to the Jewish harvest festival of Shavuot, it commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and the followers of Jesus as described in the Book of Acts, Chapter 2.

Pentecost is also called Whitsun or Whitsunday in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking area. The term is derived from Middle English whitsonday, from Old English hwta sunnandæg, White Sunday, in reference to the white ceremonial robes worn on this day.