5 Jun 2022
The Pentecost Explosion
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For 5 June 2022, Pentecost, based on Acts 2:1–11
Image by Fr. Lawrence Lew, OP
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. Amazed and astonished, they asked, ‘Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.’
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
06 June 2022 @ 1:01 am
Superb!
06 June 2022 @ 2:24 am
Once again you have torn away the stale wrappings of our faith and made me/us revisit it!! Thanks Ann. Another thing: where do you find these stories? Internet?
06 June 2022 @ 1:21 pm
Ann, you are a superb preacher and I look forward to seeing your name as the preacher of the day. Thank you. I do have a question: Who are the “many†to whom you refer? And who are not included in the many?