Pentecost - What’s it all about? I remember my first step. Pentecost: My First Step Okay, here’s the scene: I was the lone clergyman in a rather large New England church. I had spent two years at the post. I was fixing coffee and hard-boiled eggs for our monthly clergy meeting, which was for priests from local churches. You need to know that the eggs symbolized these meetings, which were usually filled with hard-boiled and stale arguments about high and low churchmanship. I heard the speaker mention the Holy Spirit. Seriously, I thought, I spent three years studying in seminary and two years as a curate in this New England church. Why had I not heard of this Holy Spirit before now?