Sunday

9 Jun 2019

Solemnity of Pentecost, Cycle C Click here for all content for this cycle Solemnity of Pentecost, Cycle C

SUNDAY SUMMARY

Acts of the Apostles 2:1-11  The Spirit arrives bringing perfect clarity and utter confusion.

Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34  God alone can send the Spirit and take it away.

1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13  The Spirit bestows many different gifts upon the one body of the church.

John 20:19-23  The Risen One brings peace, forgiveness, and the Holy Spirit.

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The inner word

What’s in your heart?

Paul was addressing a community experiencing conflicts and differing loyalties. Every community of faith—including yours—has such divisions.

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Exploring the word

A season of gift giving

Talk about a season for gift giving and most folks naturally assume you mean Christmas. That’s the time when God came to earth, took on human flesh, pitched a mortal tent, and dwelled among us, right?

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In other words

The Sunday gospel in everyday English

Later on that day, the disciples had gathered together, but, fearful of the Jews, had locked all the doors in the house. Jesus entered, stood among them, and said, “Peace to you.” Then he showed them his hands and side.

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Homily stories

The smile of peace

“A whole hour?” Randy asked. “Sometimes longer,” I replied. I was taking my college friend Randy as my date to another friend’s wedding. A Catholic wedding—something Randy had never attended before.

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Homily stories

Drink your fill

“Mommy, Daddy, I’m thirsty.” At one time when our girls were young, this plea for water was a strategy they used to put off going to sleep. They knew this ploy was good for another visit from Mom or Dad, another flipping on of the lights, another few minutes of chatting and connection.

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Homily stories

Use the gifts given to you

Martin Marty, renowned church historian, was giving a talk on Martin Luther to a packed house filled with friends, colleagues, and students of theology. Five minutes into the lecture a man in the front row called out a question.

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Homily stories

Do your best and don't worry

As a seminarian, I spent four years helping out in a small parish that was not blessed with more than a handful of Sunday Mass lectors. Every year it seemed that the same lector was scheduled to read on Pentecost.

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Prayers

Penitential Act & Prayer of the Faithful

On this great feast of Pentecost we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit. Let us pray to be filled with that Spirit.

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Quotes

Now what the soul is to the human body, the Holy Spirit is in the Body of Christ, which is the church. The Holy Spirit does in the whole church what the soul does in all the members of a single body.

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