Posts Tagged 'Holy Spirit'

Homily – May 19th, 2024 – Pentecost Sunday

The Church’s prayer for 2, 000 years has been, “Come, Holy Spirit.” The Spirit’s answer in all that time has never changed, “I am here. I have always been here.” This story comes from an autobiographical novel by Bryce Courtenay called The Power of One. It reminds me of Pentecost.

It takes place in South Africa in the late 1930s. It starts off with an emphasis on a little boy who is 6 years old, and he is an English boy. ...

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Reflection – May 19th, 2024 – Pentecost

AIR

“There came a sound like the rush of a violent wind…”(Acts 2)  and  He breathed on them and said to them “Receive the Holy Spirit…'”  

                                                     Air and Life

For the ancients there were four elements, not the ninety plus that science now teaches.

Those four were air, water, fire and earth.  Today, Pentecost, I will concentrate on ...

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