PENTECOST ⬅️ Movable Feasts - Complete List Pentecost (Whit Sunday) takes place 50 days after Easter. It commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles of Jesus while they were in Jerusalem ( Acts 2:1-11 ). PRAYER FOR THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Holy Spirit, Sanctifier blest, deign to grant us: the gift of fear, which makes us shun all sin; the gift of piety, which makes us respect and love the Three Divine Persons, our parents and children, as is proper for true children of God; the gift of knowledge, which makes us judge eternal and temporal things as God judges them; the gift of fortitude, which makes us bear all hardships for the love and greater glory of God; the gift of counsel, which makes us be guided, and guide others, in the Way of Truth, of Christlike Life; the gift of understanding, which makes us penetrate deeply into what You, Holy Spirit, have deigned to reveal; the gift of wisdom, which makes us relish all that is right and is in line with Eternal ...