Pentecost Sunday

Just picture it. Luke describes a motley group of disciples so impassioned with their sudden empowerment for mission that people thought they ...

Paul's analogy of the body of Christ teaches that every person has the potential to be a source of grace for and to be graced by all others. As John depicts it, Jesus became present in the midst of the disciples and greeted them with Shalom-peace. After exposing them to the scars of his wounded hands and side, he again said, Shalom. Then, having made them aware of the cost of being agents of God's love, he said, "As the Father has sent me, so I send you." The greater miracle was that they were becoming a community of genuinely diverse people, women and men from any and every culture. We translate Paul's word for the gifts of the Spirit as charisms. The obvious miracle was that they were able to speak about Jesus in a way that attracted people of different cultures and tongues into a shared faith. The disciples themselves were awed by the fact that they could speak to Parthians, Medes and Elamites (all Iranians), Mesopotamians (Iraqis), Cappadocians and people from Pontus, Pamphylia and Phrygia, (varieties of Turkish people), Asians, and people from Libya and Cyrene (Africans), not to mention the Romans. They preached to that international crowd and everybody understood what they were saying!

The name Whitsun came from the word White Sunday from the Old English Homilies the holy Ghost who m thou didst sent on Whit Sunday.

It is the seventh Sunday after Easter Sunday. Here are HD Images and Wallpapers that you can download and send to one and all to greet them on this joyous day. People send messages to their friends and family to wish them on this time of celebration. It is the fiftieth day after Easter Sunday. The name Whitsun came from the word White Sunday from the Old English Homilies the holy Ghost who m thou didst sent on Whit Sunday. The celebrations of the day include fates, fairs, pageants and parades.

Source: Christian Art. Gospel of 5 June 2022. John 14:15-16,23-26. Jesus said to his disciples: 'If you love me you will keep my commandments.

These flames, shown in an exteriorised form in our tapestry, are in fact interiorised and become part of who the apostles are. We see Mary in the very middle holding the Book of the Gospels with one hand and with the other hand gently resting on her chest. I have said these things to you while still with you; but the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you.

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We believe in the transformation of lives through a personal relationship with Jesus. And as Catholics, we are steadfast in professing our belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. We claim the relevance and the power of the Gospel to bring changes to our society. The Holy Spirit has made us strong, resilient, faithful, courageous, and creative as we navigated through the challenges of the pandemic.

What does the Christian Pentecost show us in America today? We find ourselves in a challenging spot, do we not? Trust is at an all-time low,

Pentecost showed us that a small group of men and women filled with the Holy Spirit could change the world. This Pentecost, let us take back our nation, show love to our neighbor, help a new friend, go to church, and worship God. Our nation needs us, and our schools need us. For ten days, they waited for the authorities to take them away. The table had turned, the world completely went upside down, and they were stuck. After getting over the shock of His resurrection, the apostles must have figured they had the world in the palm of their hands. They had witnessed something so mind-boggling, so unbelievable as to redefine the world and our relationship with it: the central reality of Christianity, that God came, died, and rose for our salvation.

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Like those disciples our upper rooms of fear and insecurity are being opened up, we are being called to 'get out there' utilise and encourage each others variety of gifts and of our common vocations as a baptised 'Christ-bearer' and in His name, with the Spirit's help walk alongside those who need us in our world now. Conformity to God's will is the key to happiness. It causes the heart to become more encompassing; it is profound kindness; it does not listen to suspicions. If there are two things we can take from John's Gospel this day it is simply that the Christ gives us peace and asks us to help that peace pervade the whole of the earth and to open ourselves to receive the Spirit, but this will make demands on us. Firstly that we acknowledge we are, as Augustine points out, citizens of two places, the City here on Earth and the City of God, but that this need not cause us too much division, for the City of God, that Kingdom we talk so much about, is also present in the here and now through our membership of that leaven of the Spirit, the community of believers in the Church. Secondly to recognise that Covid has changed the world! Our world is in fearful danger, and the worst excesses of destructive force have nothing to do with nature and everything to do with 'homo-sapiens'. We humans are responsible for so much inequality, despoliation of resources, warfare, annihilation of other species with as much right to live on this planet alongside us.