Our own PENTECOST

During the first Pentecost, we know that the world changed when God sent the Holy Spirit among the Believers. This was more than two thousand years ago, after Jesus’ resurrection and ascension. It has since been known as Pentecost which literally refers to the 50^th day since the Passover Feast. 

Pentecost was an experience that transformed the lives of the earliest disciples from a frightened group to a courageous, outspoken, enthusiastic people of God. It is still considered as the day of the birth of the Church.  The dormant gifts of the early disciples were activated. Believers became a people with new life in Christ Jesus. They became ‘born again’, as it were.  They did not just become Pentecostals, they became ‘more’ in every aspect of their vocation: more convinced, more vocal, more caring, more loving, more giving, more prayerful…

For many years, most of us have been ‘christians’, with a small letter c, ‘believers’ in what we say, ‘followers’ of Jesus from a distance, ‘disciples’ who are afraid to commit to picking up our Cross and following Our Blessed Lord, on a daily basis, as he requests.

Beloved people of God, we need our own Pentecost. Like the first disciples and Apostles of Jesus Christ, the risen Lord, in union with Mary, Our Blessed Mother and Noble Queen, let us unite in prayer in the Upper Room. Let us wait in joyful hope in great expectation of our own Pentecost.  

May posterity include our names among those brothers and sisters who waited with the Apostles, ‘Peter, and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James. All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary, the mother of Jesus and his brothers and sisters’ (cf Acts 1:12-14). May the Promised Helper come to us. May the love be evident in the way we treat one another, with gentleness and patience. May the spirit of truth, love, prayer and so on be reactivated in our lives as we experience our own Pentecost.

Fr Ted

All to Jesus – Through Mary our Mother