Reflection 

This Sunday is  Pentecost

On Sunday, we hear the sacred story of the birth of the church

Opening prayer: 

Lord God, fill us with your Holy Spirit that we may go out and share Jesus’ love and light with others like the disciples did. 

 A reading from the Act of the Apostles

On the day of Pentecost all the Lord’s followers were together in one place. Suddenly there was noise from heaven like the sound of a mighty wind! It filled the house where they were meeting. Then they saw what looked like fiery tongues moving in all directions, and a tongue came and settled on each person there. The Holy Spirit took control of everyone, and they began speaking whatever languages the Spirit let them speak.

Many religious Jews from every country in the world were living in Jerusalem. And when they heard this noise, a crowd gathered. But they were surprised, because they were hearing everything in their own languages.

They were excited and amazed and said;

“Don’t all these who are speaking come from Galilee?

Then why do we each hear them speaking our very own languages? Some of us are from Parthia, Media, and Elam. Others are from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, parts of Libya near Cyrene, Rome, Crete and Arabia.

Some of us were born Jews, and others of us have chosen to be Jews. Yet we all hear them using our own languages to tell the wonderful things God has done.”

Loving God, Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to his disciples and to us. May we go out with joy and conviction, to share the Good News of the gospel with all those we meet. 

Amen.