Pentecost Sunday

Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"

The Fiftieth Day

In other years: Saint Boniface, Apostle of Germany, Bishop and Martyr (675?-754)

Readings of the Day

Rule of Saint Benedict: Ch 7:52-54 Humility

Mass: Acts 2:1-11; Resp Ps 104; 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Rm 8:8-17; Squence Veni, Sancte Spiritus; Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 14:15-16, 23b-26

Pleasing to Him be my theme.

MARY, QUEEN OF PEACE,

PRAY FOR US.

HEART OF JESUS, ONE WITH THE FATHER AND THE SPIRIT,

HAVE MERCY ON US.

Happy Pentecost Sunday! First, put yourself in this scene, gathered in one place with the faithful, as we are, and suddenly there comes from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it fills the entire house in which we are. Then there appears to us tongues as of fire, which part and come to rest on each one of us. And we are filled with the Holy Spirit and begin to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enables us to proclaim ... (Acts 2:1-4). Some may scoff at us and think we've had too much wine (Acts 2:13). We know, however, that is not the case. Open the door of your heart and let the Holy Spirit in. For no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 12:3b). Receive the Holy Spirit (Jn 20:22), says the Lord. The Holy Spirit whom the Father sends in my name, will teach you and remind you of all that I tell you (Jn 14:26). 

In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship but to keep her on her course ...

Let us preach the whole of God's plan to the powerful and to the humble, to rich and to poor, to men of every rank and age, as far as God gives us the strength, in season and out of season ...

(From a letter by Saint Boniface, bishop and martyr, in Office of Readings, June 5)

SAINT BONIFACE,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: This one, along the Pentecost theme, comes from faithful Catherine, who comes through just at the right moment. O most blessed Light divine.

© Gertrude Feick 2022