Pentecost as the Feast of Weeks

Catholic Stuff You Should Know

J. 10 Initiative

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Fr. Sean and Fr. Jacob discuss the significance of Pentecost finding its roots in the Jewish Feast of Weeks. There were three traditional pilgrimage feasts for the Jewish people and one of them, the Feast of Weeks, which coincided with the barley harvest, took place 50 days after Passover. How does Pentecost fulfill the handing on of the law?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Catholic Stuff You Should Know, a J10 initiative.
0:10.0	Hi, welcome to Catholic Stuff You Should Know. This is Father Sean.
0:18.0	With your intrepid companion, Father Jacob.
0:21.0	What is intrepid mean?
0:22.8	Don't ask me to look it up.
0:25.1	I've heard it.
0:26.0	I've heard it in descriptions before.
0:28.2	Great to be with y'all.
0:29.6	Happy ordinary time.
0:32.0	It is ordinary time now.
0:33.7	We're wearing green.
0:35.4	But it's interesting.
0:36.4	There's actually a lot of feasts coming up because we have like Holy Trinity Sunday and
0:40.5	then we have Corpus Christi and then we have solemnity of Peter and Paul, which falls
0:45.3	on a Sunday.
0:46.6	So we wear red instead of green.
0:48.1	So we won't be in green until I think August, which is or August?
0:51.8	That's not true.
0:52.4	July, I mean.
0:53.7	July.
0:58.3	Is there none in June? Come on. No. What's today? What's the feast today?
1:03.4	No, I mean for Sundays, sorry. Oh, Sundays. Most people go to mass on Sundays and not every day like us.
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