Liturgical Year : Activities : Wooden Doves for Pentecost

Catholic Activity: Wooden Doves for Pentecost

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handmade or store-bought doves

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$$ $ $

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11+

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This describes the custom of suspending carved wooden doves on Pentecost as the reminder of the Holy Spirit.

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A fairly general custom in medieval times, and one still practiced in many sections of central and eastern Europe, is the use of artfully carved and painted wooden doves, representing the Holy Spirit. Usually this figure is suspended over the dining tables of rich and poor alike. Often it is encased in a globe of glass, into which it has been assembled with painstaking effort, a constant reminder for the members of the family to venerate the Holy Spirit.

Activity Source: Holyday Book, The by Francis X. Weiser, S.J., Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., New York, 1956