Pentecost occurred ten days after the ascension, and this is one of the reasons of the ten Hail Mary's in each mysteries of the Rosary. Also since it took one day's walk for the disciples to return to Jerusalem, there were only nine days left before Pentecost. During those said nine days the disciples, surrounding Mary, by then the mother of St. John and our Mother, prayed unceasingly until the coming of the Holy Ghost. This incidentally was the very first novena of Christianity.
Pentecost is one of the greatest moment of Christianity, it was the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the converted Jєωs, with the Blessed Virgin Mary, a daughter of Abraham, standing in the middle. The Blessed Virgin Mary did not need to receive the Holy Ghost, since she was already the daughter; the mother, and the spouse of the Holy Trinity (according to the ascetics works of St. Alfonso of Ligory), but her very presence was essential in order to prove that the event was truly due to the coming of the Paraclete, just as it had been during the day of Pentecost.
The entire Christianity, even the heretics celebrate Pentecost. Many heresies have started from Pentecost because it was for the Jєωs, while the Gentiles appear to have not been a part of it. The Gentiles might have attributed too much importance to an event that seem to have excluded the non-Jєωs, and as a consequence may have brooded on it, which explains the existence of many heresies. This is the subject of this posting:
There is also a "second Pentecost" (my word), which is also described by St.Luke in the Acts of the Apostles.
The story of this second Pentecost is directly addressed to the Gentiles. It is a complicated plot, for there are two separate parties, one is Cornelius, and the other is St. Peter. There are visions, and ecstasy's of spirit, etc. involved. Then Cornelius and Peter finally meet. This at this moment that the Holy Ghost descend upon the disciples (who were all Gentiles) with St Peter standing in the middle. The presence of St Peter was similar to the one of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Jerusalem, because Peter did not need to receive the Holy Ghost since he had received Him already in Jerusalem. His presence was essential as a proof that this "second Pentecost", as I name it, was genuinely from the Paraclete.
This "second Pentecost", of the Gentiles, described has been similar to the previous one for the Jєωs, if better acknowledged would put an end to many heresies, and would give a new strenght to the Roman Catholic Church, which Church, of Saint Peter has the Blessed Virgin Mary for mother.
This formidable event involving both Cornelius and St Peter, that opened salvation to the rest of the world, is often overlooked for one reason, which I think is the literary understatement of one lone chapter of the Act of the Apostle. Do you have comments about this suggestion?