{"id":3484,"date":"2023-06-05T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.holyart.it\/com\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2023-05-30T10:21:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T08:21:05","slug":"on-the-occasion-of-pentecost-pray-mary-that-unties-the-knots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.holyart.it\/com\/church-supplies\/on-the-occasion-of-pentecost-pray-mary-that-unties-the-knots\/","title":{"rendered":"On the occasion of Pentecost, pray Mary that unties the knots"},"content":{"rendered":"

50 days after Easter, she will untie the knots and celebrate Pentecost, which recalls the descent of the Holy Spirit among the disciples and the beginning of the Church’s mission. This year we celebrate it by reciting a Novena to Mary that unties the knots.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

This year, Pentecost<\/strong> <\/a>falls on 31 May. It is a movable feast, the date of which depends on when Easter was celebrated. Tradition has it that Pentecost falls exactly fifty days after Easter.<\/p>\n

Pentecost is one of the most important celebrations for the Catholic Church. It derives from an ancient Jewish holiday, the Shavuot, which was celebrated seven weeks after Passover and imposed a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. It was precisely to celebrate the Shavuot that the disciples and apostles gathered in Jerusalem, and it was on that occasion that the Holy Spirit descended from heaven.<\/p>\n

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Pentecost is also one of the religious anniversaries on which it is advisable to recite a Novena, a particular prayer that is usually addressed to Our Lady or to a saint to ask for her intercession to resolve a particularly difficult issue. To be effective, prayer must be recited for nine consecutive days. This year, in light of recent events, it seems right to us to propose a Novena dedicated to Mary who unties the knots, the one who offers her help to untangle the many knots of life, especially the most tangled ones.<\/p>\n

The Origins and Meaning of Pentecost<\/h2>\n

We mentioned how Pentecost originally coincided with Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks. The term Pentecost comes from ancient Greek and means the fiftieth day. This feast fell 50 days after Passover, the Jewish Passover. It was one of the three feasts (the other two were Pesach and Sukk\u00f3th) on which it was necessary to go on a pilgrimage<\/a> to Jerusalem<\/strong> bringing two loaves of bread as an offering to the Temple. The Shavuot was a feast linked to the land and the harvest<\/strong>. In fact, it is also called the “Harvest Festival” or “Feast of First Fruits”, and it was a moment of great joy.<\/p>\n

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But the Shavuot also celebrates the joy of the gift of the Ten Commandments<\/strong> to Moses and the Jewish people’s choice to follow and obey them.<\/p>\n

The apostles and disciples of Jesus also celebrated this feast.<\/p>\n

In the Acts of the Apostles<\/strong> (Acts 2:1-11) we read that on the day of Pentecost, they all met together in the same place. According to the Acts, the Ascension into heaven<\/strong> of Jesus had taken place only a few days before, 40 days after the Resurrection, while according to the Gospel of Luke, it had taken place on the very day of the Resurrection. After Jesus’ Ascension into heaven, Our Lady and the Apostles found themselves praying together. At some point, the stillness of the day was shaken by a clap of deafening thunder, and tongues of fire came down from the sky to lick the heads of all those present, who suddenly began to speak in all the languages of the world<\/strong>, so that those who had come to hear the noise recognized each one their own. To that crowd, disturbed and amazed by that miracle, Peter<\/strong> <\/a>said that it was Jesus, “Lord and Messiah”, risen from the kingdom of the dead and ascended to heaven, performed that miracle. Many converted instantly and asked to be baptised. Matthias<\/strong>, the apostle who had replaced Judas Iscariot among the Twelve, was also present and the Holy Spirit also descended on him, investing him with the ability to carry the Word of God everywhere.<\/p>\n

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That crowd gathered around the Apostles who told of the life of Jesus, of his miracles, of his greatness, of his death and resurrection, was the first nucleus of the Catholic Church, sprung up by the work of the Holy Spirit descended in the form of fire to give eloquence to the disciples of Jesus.<\/p>\n

The Holy Spirit: What It Is and What It Represents<\/h2>\n

The Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/a> is a person and is the third person of the Trinity. The divine substance, which is one, manifests itself in three different emanations, which nevertheless are all assimilable to the same substance. This process is called hypostasis<\/strong>, from the Greek hypostasis, “being subsistent”, or “substance”.<\/p>\n

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The Trinitarian Mystery is therefore composed of God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Spirit God<\/strong><\/a>, as the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed<\/strong> says: ” I believe in the Holy Spirit, who is Lord and gives life, and proceeds from the Father (and the Son), and with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified and has spoken through the prophets.”<\/p>\n

This formula of faith was formulated during the First Council of Nicaea (325) and then elaborated in the parts relating to the Holy Spirit at the First Council of Constantinople.<\/p>\n

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In the Bible<\/strong> the Holy Spirit appears in several forms:<\/p>\n