Wear Red: The Color of Pentecost
A typical Western image of the Pentecost. Duccio di Buoninsegna (1308) Tempera on wood (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Fifty days after Easter comes the feast of Pentecost. For the Hebrews, this is the Feast of Weeks or the Feast of the Harvest. Although Israelites planted both wheat and barley at the same time, barley matured more quickly, and the Israelites reaped during the this feast while the wheat ripened in the fields. This is the second harvest. The first comes during the Christian Easter, the last during the last holy days in September or October.
- Fifty days after the Feast of First Fruits (the Christian Easter)
- Sacrifice two loaves of bread and seven lambs
- One goat is sacrificed as a sin offering, two more lambs are offered as a fellowship offering.
- No work is to be done
- During this feast, leaven can be consumed. In the final feasts, observant Jews will once again abstain from leaven.
- A sound like the blowing of violent wind came from heaven
- Tongues of fire appeared
- People spoke in other tongues
The traditional church gives Pentecost the ecclesiastical color of red. Celebrate your observance by wearing red this Sunday.
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