Virginia Episcopalian Magazine Summer 2014 Issue | Page 3

Of the Holy Spirit
the Rt. Rev. Shannon S. Johnston

So now we’re in that part of the year that in the Church is
known as “after Pentecost” (as in the “umpteenth Sunday
after Pentecost”). Why make a count of Sundays after the Day
of Pentecost which, this year, was June 8? Because that great
Day of Pentecost, the feast of the gift of the Holy Spirit to the
Church (see Acts 2:1-11), actually concluded the theological
story of the Church Year, properly speaking – Advent through
Easter – and “marks time” until we return to the n