Pentecost
The feast of Pentecost remembers how the early Christians took their message onto the streets with enthusiasm and energy. Pentecost Celebrations want to capture something of that same spirit of celebration. People from across Merseyside normally gather in Hope Street to celebrate the Christian Festival of Pentecost. Inspired by the Pope’s visit to the city in 1982, this event has become a regular annual feature of life in Liverpool.
Pentecost 2024 & 2025 in Liverpool 
Ecumenical Celebration / Two Cathedrals' Walk 2024
Building God's Church Together
This year Pentecost marked 100 years of Liverpool Cathedral. The 2 Cathedral Pentecost Service was a family friendly event of celebration.
As every year, the Pilgrimage along Hope Street symbolised the Better Together motto so vigorously promoted by Bishop David Sheppard, Revd Dr John Newton, and Archbishop Derek Worlock together with those Catholic, Anglican and Free Church Leaders plus decision makers (lay and ordained) who worked equally hard!
This year it began with a service at the Metropolitan Cathedral with the Dean of the Catholic Co Cathedral of St Mary’s of the Isles, Douglas, Isle of Man, Monsignor Canon John Devine OBE preaching. John served for many years as Churches Officer for the Northwest and Pro Chancellor of Liverpool Hope (Liverpool’s Anglican-Catholic University). He spoke with passion about the change in Merseyside, the value of receptive ecumenism and the importance of working together. He drew on the outstanding example of Church Alive in Man -citing the strong and united opposition by the Churches to the assisted dying bill going through Tynwald the Manx Parliament and creative interchurch initiatives on safeguarding.
The procession moved in groups along Hope Street. Those involved in the signature Another Place organisation did mini-playlets – 1920s residents talking about the new Cathedrals … another acted as
the stonemason building the Anglican Cathedral … while another was a sixties hippy type who spoke of the music of Liverpool but also of the changes caused by those Bishops! People watching this were intrigued and asked questions.
Then arriving at the other end there was music, giant skittles, giant building blocks to build your own Cathedral plus picnics inside and outside the Cathedral to also mark Liverpool Cathedral’s 100th anniversary. Finally, prayers and the blessing was given by three of Churches Together in the Merseyside Region’s Church Leaders –Bishop Dr John Perumbalath - Bishop of Liverpool, Archbishop Malcolm McMahon Roman Catholic Archbishop and
- what will be a great loss to Merseyside as she retires, the Revd Dr Sheryl Anderson -Chair of the Liverpool Methodist District.
Pentecost 2025 in Liverpool
Preparations are under way for Pentecost Celebrations 2025 and please put Pentecost Sunday 8 June 2025, 3-5pm in your diaries. More information will follow as it becomes available.