Word: pentecostal
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...Vatican II to "renew" the Roman Catholic Church Pope John made the biggest individual imprint on the year. But revolutions in Christianity are even rarer (the Reformation was 400 years ago), and John's historic mission is fired by a desire to endow the Christian faith with "a new Pentecost," a new spirit. It is aimed not only at bringing the mother church of Christendom into closer touch with the modern world, but at ending the division that has dissipated the Christian message for four centuries...
...Most of these adherents are poor, few of them well educated. Their churches are simple-a storefront congregation in New York's Spanish Harlem, a barren cinderblock rectangle on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The minister is likely to be a factory worker himself, secure in the Pentecostal belief that "a man of God with a Bible in his hand has had training enough." Whether he calls his church Pentecostal or Holiness or Church of God, he emphasizes an event usually glossed over by mainstream Protestants: the Pentecost, 50 days after the Resurrection, when the Holy Spirit descended...
...Pentecostals think their Oldtime Religion is truly oldtime-a return to the direct, untrammeled belief of the primitive Christians, a return to the original experiences of the apostles. They believe literally in the gift of tongues granted the apostles at Pentecost, and occasionally someone in the congregation feels called upon to rise and shout in a foreign language or a wailing gibberish unintelligible even to believers...
Expedition (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Seeking out ancient customs and rituals, the program visits the South Pacific island of Pentecost, where young men climb a 90-ft. tower and dive to the solid ground...
...Holy Comforter Church uses plain chant at all his Sunday services; about half of his congregation genuflect. Even in denominations where Communion is still rare (such as the Congregational), ministers have restored the ecclesiastical calendar to use, preaching on themes appropriate to the seasons of Lent, Advent or Pentecost...