Pentecost Sunday
“Pentecost Day’’
The feast of Pentecost reminds us the fulfillment of the promise of Jesus of sending of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles to help them carry out the mission entrusted to them. Just as Jesus was anointed with the Spirit at the beginning of his ministry so also the apostles needed the anointing of the Spirit to be effective in their mission. The Holy Spirit is therefore given to all who are baptized into Christ to enable them to live a new way of life–a life of love, peace, joy, and righteousness. The Holy Spirit fills our hearts with the love of God and he gives us the strength and courage we need in order to live as grace-filled disciples of Jesus. The Spirit helps us in our weakness and guides us in our pilgrimage. When we pray, the Spirit is at work in us, helping us to pray. God wants us to know him and love him and the Spirit helps us to do that. But because the Spirit works within us, we are not aware the Spirit is even there. For we cannot know much of ourselves, we cannot know Jesus Christ either, without the help of the Spirit. As Paul tells us in today’s second reading: ‘’No one can say Jesus is Lord except in the Holy Spirit.’’ Without the Spirit God is really unknown to us. The Spirit makes us constantly aware of God’s presence with us and God’s love for us. The Spirit helps the Scriptures come alive for us because through them God speaks to us. And so the same Spirit gives each of us different gifts to help us to know and experience God and God’s love. If we want to experience the fullness of the Spirit, then what should we do? We need to come together, we need to worship together, we need each other, we need to share our gifts with one another. Without the Spirit we are trying to breath without air, think without light, love without fire. May this great love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with each of us. Amen.
'"Wish you all Happy feast of the Holy Spirit, our Pentecost Sunday''
~~Fr. Paul Materu