The Christian feast of Pentecost developed late in the fourth century as “the fifty days of Easter” not “the fifty days after Easter.” This was an entire period of rejoicing, an Alleluia time, when Christians witnessed the Resurrection, the Ascension and the outpouring of the Spirit upon Mary and the Apostles.
Sister Joan Chittister writes thus of Pentecost:
“For the early Christians and for us now – it is a matter of allowing the Spirit to transform us so that our life and the life of Christ do finally merge, do really melt into one another, do truly become one.”
La fiesta cristiana de Pentecostés se desarrolló a finales del siglo IV como «los cincuenta días de Pascua», no «los cincuenta días después de Pascua». Se trataba de todo un periodo de regocijo, un tiempo de Aleluya, en el que los cristianos fueron testigos de la Resurrección, la Ascensión y la efusión del Espíritu sobre María y los Apóstoles.
Sor Joan Chittister escribe así de Pentecostés:
«Para los primeros cristianos -y para nosotros ahora- se trata de dejar que el Espíritu nos transforme para que nuestra vida y la vida de Cristo se fundan finalmente, se fundan realmente la una en la otra, se hagan verdaderamente una».
Building on centuries of Catholic Social Teaching and drawing on Scripture, 
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