Tag Archive for ‘Pentecost’
Sunday June 5
Pentecost Acts 2:1-11; Psalm 104: 1-2, 24, 25, 27-30; 1 Corinthians 12:3-7,12-13; John 20:19-23 The birthday of the Church Pentecost is the day when the Spirit invisibly moved the little community of believers gathered in Jerusalem to go down into the streets of that city. What was visible within that community was their dedication to […]
Strange and Surprising Grace
It’s Pentecost and we celebrate once again the birth of the Church and the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the Disciples. You know that already, but it’s probably worthwhile drilling down a bit to get some sense about the surprising and even strange grace that flowed that Pentecost Day. Here are the Disciples with […]
Mary at the Heart of the Church
During the month of June, the Church celebrates three important feast days on successive Sundays. They are the Feasts of the Body and Blood of Christ, of the Holy Trinity and of Pentecost. They’re all important to the Church; the People of God. The fifty days of Easter Time draw to a close with the […]
Pentecost
It was a Saturday morning in early December 1991 in Samoa. I was moving furniture away from the louvre windows because cyclone-driven rain was blowing through them. Then there was a bit more noise, and the room suddenly became very bright. No one had turned the lights on. The explanation was simple — there was […]
We grow by giving
An extract from Pope Francis’ homily on the Solemnity of Pentecost, 31.05.2020: The secret of unity in the Church, the secret of the Spirit is gift. For the Spirit himself is gift. He lives by giving himself and in this way he keeps us together, making us sharers in the same gift. It is important […]
Pentecost — A Tap on the Shoulder
A little group of bewildered men, together with Mary and who knows who else, huddled together in a room for the comfort of one another’s company and in fear of what lay beyond — hardly an image that inspires hope. There’s no social distancing here, just a small scrum of fear. The one who had […]
Mary at Pentecost and in the new-born Church
This month we celebrate Pentecost, the feast of the Church being born in the fire of the Holy Spirit. One in mind and heart and gathered around Mary, the first believers gave strong witness to the resurrection of Jesus (Acts 2:1-4, 42-47), and to the joy that comes from being part of something extraordinarily wonderful. […]
Mary for Today – Mary at Pentecost
Pentecost: This feast originally marked the end of the grain harvest. In time it came to be associated with the Exodus and the giving of the covenant. In NT times it took on a new significance as the day in which the Spirit is given to the disciples of Jesus. Eventually the fifty day period, […]
Thursday 21 May
Acts 22:30, 23:6-11, Ps. 16, John 17:20-26 One in Christ The week – between Ascension and Pentecost is, for New Zealand, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Let us be prompted by Jesus’ prayer: “May they all be one. Father, may they be one in us, as you are in me and I am […]
Sunday 19 May
PENTECOST Act 2:1-11, Ps 104:1,24,29-30,31,34, Corinthians 12:3-7,12-13John 14:15-16,23-26 Go tell everyone The mission Christ gave the apostles when he breathed the life of the Holy Spirit into them, was to spread the news of his resurrection and of salvation to all people. This is a universal message which means the same today as it did […]
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