A blessed Pentecost, friends!
At the Ascension, Jesus gave us, his followers, a great task—to go to all the world, proclaiming with our lives and words the Gospel to all people, everywhere. At Pentecost, He empowered us with His own Spirit to accomplish this task. At Pentecost, we get to embody in our everyday lives what the Holy Family embodied at Epiphany: the good news that the gift of Christ is for all people. All the longing, doubt, grief, and the sins of the world we held up in the dark nights of Advent and Lent, all the bright hope and relief that resurrected to life with the Risen Christ, are channeled into this great movement of the Spirit and the Church at Pentecost.
The movement of Pentecost is lit for outward projection; the great current of Spirit moves us toward all people, in every nation, everywhere. Some of us send, some of us go, and all of us move toward the peoples of all nations. This is our one task, our one job until we are reunited with Christ.
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