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Today, on Pentecost Sunday, we celebrate the birth of the Church, for it was today that the Holy Spirit blest the "entire house" where the apostles were gathered and allowed them to speak in different tongues.
When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.
As Joseph Shaw says at Catholic Answers:
God sends us his Spirit in abundance; it is up to us to receive the Spirit with an open heart. Receiving the Spirit is not just a matter of being well disposed at a particular moment—at our confirmation, for example—but throughout our lives. We have a special liturgical space to renew this receptivity every year in Pentecost week.
Let us today, and every day, be open to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. As it says in the Psalm in today's readings:
If you take away their breath, they perish
and return to their dust.
When you send forth your spirit, they are created,
and you renew the face of the earth.
Holy Spirit, come to us every day and teach us to follow Jesus in accordance with the Father's perfect will. Amen.
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