FAITH BOOK

PENTECOST DAY (B) May 19, 2024

ACTS 2: 1- 11; Psalm 104; I Corinthians 12: 3b-7, 12-13; John 20: 19-33

- Jude Siciliano, OP

Mini reflections on the Sunday scripture readings designed for persons on the run. “Faith Book” is also brief enough to be posted in the Sunday parish bulletins people take home.

From today’s Acts of the Apostles reading:

And they were filled with the Holy Spirit
and began to speak in different tongues,
as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.

Reflection:

Look what happened very rapidly for the gathered disciples: the descent of the Spirit upon them, the gift of tongues, Peter’s speech and the formation of the Church. While the elders in the Hebrew Scriptures (1  Samuel 10:5 ff) spoke in ecstatic speech under the impulse of God’s Spirit (“prophecy”), today we celebrate Jesus’ Spirit empowering all in the fledgling church to speak to the nations and to be understood by them.

So, we ask ourselves:

• Do we find ourselves always gathering with people like us?

• What “different” or “foreign” group do I need to reach out to?

Click here for a link to this Sunday’s readings:

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/pentecost-sunday-mass-during-day  

FAITH BOOK ARCHIVE:

• PENTECOST •
• ASCENSION •
• EASTER VI •
• EASTER V •
• EASTER IV •
• EASTER III •
• EASTER II •
• EASTER SUNDAY •