That choice may have been determined, if one may so speak, either in view of the circumstances of the feast, or of its history and symbolic fitness.
Theme: HOLY SPIRIT, GIVE US PEACE. 122. Sore was the tribulation which came upon them as they thought upon his death, and his burial in Joseph’s sepulchre. (1) When the day of Pentecost was fully come.--It is natural to assume a purpose in the divine choice of the day on which the disciples were thus to receive the promise of the Father. On the Holy Spirit in the Life of the Church and the World . The Apostles began to preach the Gospel in all of the languages that the Jews who were gathered there spoke, and about 3,000 people were converted and baptized that day.
By: Rev. The third Divine Person of the Blessed Trinity sent to the world by the Father and the Son, Jesus Christ.
The Pentecost Novena in honor of the Holy Spirit is the oldest of all novenas since it was first made at the direction of Our Lord Himself when He sent His apostles back to Jerusalem to await the coming of the Holy Spirit on the first Pentecost. The Day of Pentecost has sparked the Christian imagination with its iconography of inebriation, purgation, and ignition. Doctrine: Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Every person in the upper room was filled with the Holy Spirit, and they were transformed into blazing spiritual torches. First God sent a sound “as of a rushing mighty wind” . Where does the Feast of Pentecost come from? Sermon on the Feast of Pentecost by St. John Chrysostom Our father among the saints John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, was a notable Christian bishop and preacher from the fourth and fifth centuries in Syria and Constantinople. When Christians think of Pentecost, we link it with the birthday of the Church. It is still the …
When Christians think of Pentecost, we link it with the birthday of the Church.
Introduction: Pentecost literally means 50 th.It is a feast celebrated on the 50 th day after the Passover feast by the Jews, and it is a feast celebrated on the 50 th day after the feast of the Resurrection of Jesus by the Christians. Acts 2:1-11; 1 Corinthians 12:3-7,12-1; John 20:19-23. The tongues of fire alighting on each believer symbolize the cleansing baptism John the Baptist proclaimed of the coming Christ (Luke 3:16) and the enkindling passion that ignited divine-human utterances, first expressed in tongues-speech and then preaching. “On the Feast of Pentecost when the seven weeks of Easter had come to an end, Christ’s Passover is fulfilled in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, manifested, given, and communicated as a Divine Person: of His fullness, Christ, the Lord, pours out the Spirit in abundance” (Acts of the Apostles 2:33-36; CCC, 731). Furthermore, our ability to do so is a divine gift. We need another earth-shaking revival like the great awakenings of past generations. Every person baptized that day received, to some degree, a share in the Apostles’ mission — for they received a share in the life of Jesus Christ. The Trinity is the mystery at the heart of Christianity, and from the beginning it distinguished the apostolic Faith from everything else. God used physical miracles to draw attention to a much greater spiritual miracle.
Pentecost is, for many of us and our congregations, the Sunday (or season) in which we turn our attention to the person and work of the Holy Spirit.
The Harvest of Pentecost. PENTECOST SUNDAY, YEAR A. Some churches receive new members on Pentecost, thus commemorating the first “new members class” that joined the church after Peter’s Pentecost sermon. II. The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Blessed Trinity.
READINGS: ACTS 2:1-11, PSALM 104, 1CORINTHIANS 12:3b-7.12-13, JOHN 20:19-23 •THE PERSONALITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: He is a divine person, third of the Triune God – God the Spirit. First, the Holy Spirit, Of course, is God like the father and the son, the third divine person of the Blessed Trinity sent to the world by the father and the son Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit now guides the church and continues the works and teachings of Jesus without changing them. Let me give you a little bit of historical analogy to illustrate the text.
On the day of Pentecost, according to Acts 2, God poured the Holy Spirit out on his new covenant people, creating the community of those who follow Jesus and spread his Good News to the ends of the earth. Jacob Aondover ATSU .