THE GIFT OF TEARS – One Bread, One Body, Jun 4, 2014

Pentecost Novena – Day 6 Acts 20:28-38 | Psalm 68:29-30, 33-36 | John 17:11-19 “They began to weep without restraint.” —Acts 20:37 If you receive the Holy Spirit in this Pentecost novena, you will probably feel both more joyful and more sorrowful than ever before. St. Paul, in his life in the Spirit, proclaimed and commanded: “Rejoice in the Lord always! I say it again.

GETTING INTO TROUBLE – One Bread, One Body, Jun 3, 2014

St. Charles Lwanga & Companions, Pentecost Novena – Day 5 Acts 20:17-27 | Psalm 68:10-11, 20-21 | John 17:1-11 “The Holy Spirit has been warning me from city to city that chains and hardships await me.” —Acts 20:23 The Holy Spirit repeatedly warned St

June 8th 2014 – Pentecost Sunday

Listen Here! A Mighty Wind Readings: Acts 2:1-11 Psalm 104:1,24,29-31,34 1 Corinthians 12:3-7,12-13 John 20:19-23 The giving of the Spirit to the new people of God crowns the mighty acts of the Father in salvation history. The Jewish feast of Pentecost called all devout Jews to Jerusalem to celebrate their birth as God’s chosen people, in the covenant Law given to Moses at Sinai (see Leviticus 23:15-21; Deuteronomy 16:9-11). In today’s First Reading the mysteries prefigured in that feast are fulfilled in the pouring out of the Spirit on Mary and the Apostles (see Acts 1:14)