Pentecost

Today is Pentecost, one of the holiest days of the year.  Somehow, thanks be to God, it has resisted being made into a commercial event, as has sadly happened to both Christmas and Easter.  This is probably, I am sad to say, because many Protestants (by number, though probably not by count of denominations) largely ignore Pentecost.  At least that was my experience with the independent Bible churches and the Southern Baptists; they would remember secular holidays (Mothers' Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day) and forget Pentecost.