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Pentecost: The Grandest Octave?

by Fr. Guy Nicholls of the Oratory

“…consider the breviary offices for Pentecost and its Octave, the grandest, perhaps in the whole year…” --Blessed John Henry Newman

Last year [2011] I read with great interest Gregory Dipippo’s article on the Octave of Pentecost. In the light of that, and in view of the current liturgical season, your readers may be interested to know of a new initiative taking place this Pentecost at Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, a church which has featured several times on the NLM website. To this account I have added my own reflections on the importance of restoring the liturgical observance of the Octave of Pentecost.

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