O God, who in the exaltation of thy Son Jesus Christ dost sanctify thy universal Church: Shed abroad in every race and nation the gift of the Holy Spirit; that the work wrought by his power at the first preaching of the gospel may now be extended throughout the whole world; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.

24th May is the feast of Pentecost.

BL Arundel 157; Psalter of the Virgin Mary, and Little Office of the Virgin Mary; 13th century; England, Central (Oxford); f.12v @BLMedieval pic.twitter.com/dQb9gLS36W

— Ennius (@red_loeb) May 23, 2026

“You shall count seven weeks; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain. Then you shall keep the feast of weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the LORD your God blesses you; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place which the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell there. You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

–Deuteronomy 16:9-12

Today's the great feast of Pentecost. The Holy Spirit descends on the Blessed Virgin and the Disciples in 15th Century glass at East Harling, Norfolk. pic.twitter.com/3CRXngUIQo

— Simon Knott (@SimoninSuffolk) May 24, 2026