1 Lesson 2: Pentecost Flashcards
What do you think is the reason why we begin
the school year with the Mass of the Holy Spirit?
TO EMPOWER US AS WE BEGIN THE
WORK FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR
This personal experience of the Holy Spirit has been
felt first by the Apostles of Jesus in the event called:
Pentecost
Jewish name(3):
Greek name:
J: the Feast of Harvest, the Feast of Weeks, SHAVUOT
G: Pentecost
It is mentioned in the ________
__________
__________
__________
__________
___________
first five books
Genesis 23
Exodus 24
Leviticus 16
Numbers 28
Deuteronomy 16
The early harvest (_______)
The final harvest (______)
Barley
Wheat
The early harvest
came during the months of ____ and ____;
May and June
The final harvest came in
the ____.
Fall
Pentecost was the celebration of the beginning of the early wheat
harvest. It also commemorates the ____________________________
anniversary of the giving of the Torah by
God to the Children of Israel at Mount Sinai.
is the compilation of the first five books
torah
Where was the giving of the Torah located?
Mount Sinai
Pentecost was always ___ days after First fruits (early harvest)
50
since ___ days equals ___ weeks, it always came a “____________” later.
50 days
7 weeks
“weeks of weeks”
It was ___ days after the Lord Jesus had
ascended into heaven.
10
Jesus had told his
Apostles “not to leave Jerusalem, but to
wait there for what the Father had
promised” (verse).
Acts 1: 4
Obedient to their
divine Master, the 11 Apostles went
from the ______________________
Mount of the Ascension—>the Mount of Olives—>back into the city of Jerusalem
They stayed in the Upper
Room and “joined in continuous prayer,
together with several women, including
Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his
brothers” (verse).
Acts 1: 14
_________ people were converted on that one
day (cf. Acts 2: 41).
Three thousand
The number of Christians soon rose to
__________ (verse).
5,000 (cf. Acts 4: 4).
The _______ was jealous, afraid and angry that
the Apostles were preaching the resurrection of
Jesus.
Sanhedrin
Jesus sent his Apostles to be his “witnesses not only in Jerusalem but throughout
________ and _________, and indeed to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1: 8).
Judea and Samaria
The word “Church” means “__________________.”
that which pertains to the Lord
_______________
stamps Catholicism with a trademark of authenticity. It guarantees the
Church’s fidelity to the God who gave her life.
The Holy Spirit
At Pentecost the Holy Spirit did NOT ____________________
descend as a communal bonfire.
The one Spirit of God parted and came to rest on each of the Apostles individually. The lesson?
We each receive our share of God.
