This Sunday – 50 days after Easter – is Pentecost.
In the year of Christ’s death and resurrection, the Holy Spirit descended upon Christ’s Apostles 50 days after Christ’s resurrection (i.e., Pentecost). Pentecost is the anniversary of the Apostles’ new role, with the breath of the Holy Spirit, to be the post-resurrection deliverers of Christ’s message to the people – the day of Christianity’s founding.
I carry this visual representation of Pentecost – the Holy Spirit (represented as a dove) – on my purse (it’s a pin); an ongoing reminder for me to live Church daily. Do I “Love God and love my neighbor” every day? How? What do I do on any given week to spread the message of God’s love in my community? How well I “Love God and love my neighbor” and spread the message of God’s love is my measure of how I help to spread the message of Church – of God’s love for us – in the world.
Do you celebrate Pentecost? How?
Kim Burkhardt blogs about faith at A Parish Catechist.
