1st READING
The Day of Pentecost marks a most important day for the life of the Church in that the power to live the Gospel, in the form of the third person of the Holy Trinity, was sent to us this day! Without the Holy Spirit, the task of the Gospel is impossible; we will always fail in the call to live the Gospel and proclaim it. With the Holy Spirit, everything becomes possible and we are called into a new relationship with God — a relationship that empowers us by His love and grace to become His children.
Acts 2:1-11
1 When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. 2 And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. 3 Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. 4 And they were all
filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim. 5 Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven staying in Jerusalem. 6 At this sound, they gathered in a large crowd, but they were confused because each one heard them speaking in his own language. 7 They were astounded, and in amazement they asked, “Are not all these people who are speaking Galileans? 8 Then how does each of us hear them in his own native language? 9 We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya near Cyrene, as well as travelers from Rome, 11 both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs, yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty acts of God.”
P S A L M
Psalm 104: 1. 24. 29-30. 31. 34
R: Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD, my God, you are great indeed! 24 How manifold are your works, O LORD! The earth is full of your creatures. (R) 29 If you take away their breath, they perish and return to their dust. 30 When you send forth your spirit, they are created, and you renew
the face of the earth. (R) 31 May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD be glad in his works! 34 Pleasing to him be my theme; I will be glad in the LORD. (R)
2nd READING
The Holy Spirit never comes to us empty-handed. He always comes with a whole array of gifts — gifts that will give power to our witness of the Kingdom of God breaking forth into the world. The lack of experience of so many of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is, I believe, a sign of how the Kingdom of God is seemingly receding in the hearts of the people of today. We need to pray for a new outpouring of the Spirit of God to win back lost ground and to move towards the final consummation of the world in the Second Coming of Jesus, whenever that will be!
1 Corinthians 12:3b-7. 12-13
3 Brothers and sisters: No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the holy Spirit. 4 There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; 5 there are different forms of service but the same Lord; 6 there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone. 7 To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit. 12 As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.
G O S P E L
The Holy Spirit always stands as a bridge between us and the Father and the Son. It is by the power of the Holy Spirit, the power of His love, that we come to the Father through the Son. This is the traditional theological understanding of the dynamic by which we pray and relate to God. It is not a static understanding and we enter into it on many different levels of consciousness and understanding. Needless to say we will never fully comprehend how it all works, but that is not important; what is important is that it does work and we can enter into it.
John 15:26-27; 16:12-15
26 Jesus said to his disciples: “When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me. 27 And you also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning. 16: 12 “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. 13 But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. 14 He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. 15 Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.”
my reflections
think: We need to pray for a new outpouring of the Spirit of God to win back lost ground and to move towards the final consummation of the world in the Second Coming of Jesus, whenever that will be!
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T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST
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READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Joshua 17-20
SABBATH PAUSE
My weekly time with God
THANK YOU LIST
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SPECIAL NEEDS
Things to ask God for in the coming week
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HIDDEN TREASURE
Most important word God told me this week
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