Whitsuntide traditions

ive done a search and can't find out on the board about it..all i remember as kid was getting some new clobber off mi grom.....so can anyone explain it to me?

Google it dude...

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=whitsuntide&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Whit weekend is usually the first holiday weekend of the year with any hope of decent weather, and a fine Whit Monday (now renamed the Late Spring Bank Holiday) will see families flocking to the coast or countryside.

THE ORIGINS OF THE FESTIVAL

Pentecost or Whitsun is observed on the seventh Sunday after Easter. The word Pentecost has its roots in the Greek "pentekoste" meaning the fiftieth day after Easter. Whit Sunday commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit in the form of flames to the Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament. The recent adoption of a Late Spring Bank Holiday on the last Monday in May is an attempt to deal with the fact that Whitsuntide is a moveable feast dependent on the date of Easter. Although it is no longer necessarily at the church's Whitsuntide, the general public still refers to this holiday as "Whit Monday."

Originally posted by Skatiechik

Do you mean Whitsun Bank Holiday?

no i mean whitsun tide:rolleyes:

yeah thats what i remember it for.... new clothes time then to the seaside to stop with me nan & grandad in their caravan.

Originally posted by steev

Google it dude...

 

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=whitsuntide&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

 

Whit weekend is usually the first holiday weekend of the year with any hope of decent weather, and a fine Whit Monday (now renamed the Late Spring Bank Holiday) will see families flocking to the coast or countryside.

 

THE ORIGINS OF THE FESTIVAL

Pentecost or Whitsun is observed on the seventh Sunday after Easter. The word Pentecost has its roots in the Greek "pentekoste" meaning the fiftieth day after Easter. Whit Sunday commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit in the form of flames to the Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament. The recent adoption of a Late Spring Bank Holiday on the last Monday in May is an attempt to deal with the fact that Whitsuntide is a moveable feast dependent on the date of Easter. Although it is no longer necessarily at the church's Whitsuntide, the general public still refers to this holiday as "Whit Monday."

cheers mate:thumbsup: where did the new clobber come into it i wonder:confused:

Originally posted by kirky

...where did the new clobber come into it i wonder:confused:

Blame the Christians. It probably came from vernal equinox the same way they hijacked winter solstice.

Whitsun is now better known as Spring Bank Holiday, about the end of May.

Originally posted by kirky

no i mean whitsun tide:rolleyes:

Then why is the title spelt witsuntide, its a bit cryptic?

You either met Whitsun, or something completely different I am not here to decipher spelling mistakes.

Whitsuntide was a real earner - new clobber then people gave you money too....

Spring Bank doesn't have the same ring to it...

Whitsun ...... White Sunday

A traditional time in days past, in Europe, for baptisms and dressing in new white robes (and new suits etc.)

Logical time, even pre-church, to get kitted out in your new summer gear. Now as the sun is starting to shine and the mud & rain of winter is retreating.

Google is your friend.

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