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Banner Image:\u00a0Hortus Deliciarum, Pentecost : The sending of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles (circa 1180).<\/em><\/p>\n

Editor’s note:\u00a0Whitsun (also Whitsunday or Whit Sunday) is the name used especially in Britain and Ireland, and throughout the world among Anglicans and Methodists, for the Christian festival of Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter, which commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Christ’s disciples (Acts 2). (Wikipedia<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n

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I think Whitsun is an underrated opportunity for celebration. After the <\/span>trumpetings of Christmas and <\/span>Easter it passes almost unnoticed with one <\/span>meagre paragraph in the Acts.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the BBC, in its wisdom, marked this year\u2019s Whitsun [Sunday, May 20th] with a new rendition of King Lear with Anthony Hopkins.<\/p>\n

Do they on some level \u2018know\u2019 that Shakespeare gives Whitsun the Royal treatment with King Lear (Real King)?<\/p>\n

\"\"In Shakespeare\u2019s hidden \u2018theology\u2019, Whitsun, occurring as it does just after the Ascension, celebrates the culmination of the Christ action (the birth, ministry, death, resurrection and ascension): the very moment when the ultimate purpose of Jesus\u2019 ministry is fulfilled: the Sound Current, the Word made flesh, the Wind From Heaven, (The Tempest), the Holy Grail, lost to humankind by Adam\u2019s dalliance with the mortal coils of \u2018good and evil\u2019, is restored into the human consciousness. All of us now has the potential of hearing \u2018the harmony of the immortal soul\u2019 by attuning within to the Word of God.<\/p>\n

The audible element of the Holy Spirit restores the union of Sound with Light. The renewed wholeness of the Spirit, unseals the way out of the dilemma of good and evil, demon-strates the eternal forgiveness of God to all mankind regardless of tongue, race, creed, colour, situation, circumstance or environment.<\/p>\n

Worth a tad more than a mere Bank Holiday, I\u2019d venture.<\/p>\n

Acts 2:1, King James Version<\/h4>\n

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord<\/strong> in one<\/strong> place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven<\/strong> as of a rushing mighty wind,<\/strong> and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire,<\/strong> and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.<\/p>\n

Watch \u2018blow winds\u2019 video clip of Roger Allum\u2019s Lear<\/h4>\n