One of the the holidays we mentioned in Jyrya was called Pasyaltide. It is the counterpart to Aventye in the Swordflower Saga calendar. As Aventye celebrated the birth of Jesus and was loosely based on Advent, so Pasyaltide celebrates Jesus’ last days on earth and is loosely based on a liturgical holiday known as Paschaltide or Eastertide. It begins on Easter Sunday and culminates in Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was given to the Church.
As we began to write Illisya, we realized that the story was going to span over that world’s Pentecost Lumsday. As Samuel Chadwick writes in The Way to Pentecost: “Pentecost is the crowning miracle and abiding mystery of grace.” We didn’t want to miss the opportunity to celebrate such an important event in the Church if we could manage it in the story, so we began to look for a song that might be able to include. However, we quickly realized how few songs have actually been written to celebrate Pentecost. We wanted something that related to the historical event as well as pointing us to the Holy Spirit’s work today. As we began to prayerfully write this part of the book, snippets of a song came to mind, and we took the time to write a rough version of it. The text below may or may not make it into the finished book, but it gives you a taste of what might be.
