Come Holy Spirit fill the hearts of your faithful and enkindle in us the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and we shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth. O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, instructs the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever rejoice in his consolation, through Christ our Lord. Amen
At the first Pentecost, the disciples were gathered in the same room where they had celebrated the Last Supper. This is a reminder to us of how Christ is present to us both body and soul through the Eucharist. It helps us to hear the Word spoken to us and come into communion with him through this profound act of thanksgiving where his life becomes at one with us and we become at one with him. It is a sign that receiving the Holy Spirit has tangible signs of his love being spread out through the world wherever people gather to celebrate Mass.
In our own lives as well it helps us to recognise that people from every nation and language can gather and be at one in Christ Jesus. That we share a common foundation which allows us to become one with each other through our sharing in the Holy Spirit which empowers us to live that for our whole community by entrusting gifts to us. This allows us to see that discipleship is not just about what we receive but how this enables to give our lives to God in the place where we live. It is this profound surrender which transforms us and enables us to be more what God envisions for our world.
Thus on this Pentecost may the spirit fall upon us anew to allow us to be people who proclaim his word by the witness of our lives.
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