{"id":64008,"date":"2024-04-13T18:23:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T23:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=64008"},"modified":"2024-04-13T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T00:05:09","slug":"pentecost-as-a-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/13\/pentecost-as-a-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentecost as a birthday party???"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent weeks I\u2019ve seen quite a few diocesan newsletters, Christian formation suggestions, and popular \u2018liturgy tips\u2019 advocating for a festive parish celebration of Pentecost. Admittedly cultural styles vary, so balloons may work in one setting, and the flight of the white dove (<em>palombella<\/em>) in another setting (the former suggestion dating back about 3 decades, the latter a lot of centuries), but the explanations do not necessarily explore the origins of practice. Some examples of suggestions last week in the US included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">wear red and celebrate with red foods. Reference the \u201ctongues of fire\u201d in someway such as red helium balloons tied to wrists, or balloon rockets, or streamers of red and orange to wave, or &#8216;tongues of fire&#8217; hats&#8230;<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-base-color\">\u201d\u00a0<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While none of these suggestions would particularly assist in my own participation of the 50<sup>th<\/sup> day of Easter and a feast of the Holy Spirit, these popular suggestions always seem to be rooted in the \u201cbirthday of the church\u201d, calling for a birthday cake or other domestic image. Where in the world is this coming from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trying to find the starting place of Pentecost as birthday party has proved elusive. Several authors have reminisced about their childhoods in which these birthday celebrations took place, which would date this view of Pentecost back to the 1960s and even the 1950s in some places. These particular stories come from reformed protestant churches as well as some Lutheran sources and much more recently Episcopalian. What I find interesting is the language (in popular catechetical and other writing) is almost always that Pentecost is \u201coften observed\u201d or \u201cunderstood to be\u201d the birthday of the church, with very little explanation behind it. A few popular ecclesial and\/or religious order magazines have talked about the Jewish background of Pentecost (always good to think of the archeological depth of some of our high holy days) but then there is this leap to the birthday image without much connection. A few have referenced the evangelism event that this day was in the Acts of the Apostles, which prompted the <em>Archdiocesan Biblical Apostolate of Singapore<\/em> to argue against this as a defense of the birthday imagery. This would, in their words \u201cbe similar to celebrating the birthday of a person on the day he\/she started talking instead of the day when the child came out of the mother\u2019s womb.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think this may be another instance where (like St. Francis Day) the conversation among scholars and the conversations in more popular teaching might benefit from sitting at the same table over shared interests. If there had been a conversation, something of the very long tradition (not just \u2018history\u2019, but the \u201cauthorizing claims of the past\u201d as Teresa Berger puts it) would have come into play. The birth of the Church? Good Friday. Both extant historical homilies on Good Friday plus historical studies of John 19:33-34 indicate a broad sense of the birth of the church from the side of Jesus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.&nbsp;Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out. (NRSVUE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my favourites from later history (16<sup>th<\/sup> century) is Richard Hooker\u2019s spin on earlier themes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">By grace every one of us is in Christ and in His Church\u2026God formed His Church out of the flesh, the wounded and bleeding side of the Son of Man. Christ\u2019s body was crucified, and His blood shed for the renewed life of the world. His body and blood are the true elements of that heavenly being who makes us beings like Him from whom we come. In this sense, the words of Adam might be suitably the words of Christ, where He speaks of His Church as \u201cflesh of my flesh and bone of my bones.\u201d So it is that those who belong to the mystical body of our Saviour Christ, the Church, and are as numerous as the stars and are divided successively into many generations, are nevertheless all joined to Christ as their head. Each particular person is joined to each other person because the same spirit that animated the blessed soul of our Saviour Christ unites and creates His whole people, just as if He and they were so many limbs fashioned into one body and quickened by the same soul. (from his <em>On the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, <\/em>Vol 5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps the celebration of all that Pentecost has been can call us back to the eve of Eastertide and link Good Friday with the end of Eastertide, suspending us in the life-giving tension of Christ trampling down death by death, and bringing forth the means by which the body of Christ continues. Perhaps this approach could even re-center our parish Pentecost festivities in the glorious depths of our multiple layers of theology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIZETTE LARSON &#8212; In recent weeks I\u2019ve seen quite a few diocesan newsletters, Christian formation suggestions, and popular \u2018liturgy tips\u2019 advocating for a festive parish celebration of Pentecost. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":64015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,17,91],"tags":[3711,767],"class_list":["post-64008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inculturation","category-liturgical-spirituality","category-liturgical-year","tag-birthday-of-the-church","tag-pentecost"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pentecost as a birthday party??? 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