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Article: May pockets brim with Spirit's fires, fruits. (Starting Point)(Pentecost) (Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- May 21, 1993
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Pentecost continues to be my favorite celebration among all the lovely feasts of the year. The Holy Spirit came upon us at the First Pentecost, the day the church of Christ formally began.
Pentecost (a name that comes from the fact that it happens 50 days after Easter) fascinates, absorbs and inspires me in ways different from and perhaps superior to every other feast.
The coming of the Holy Spirit to the apostles gathered together with Mary in the cenacle is more comprehensible than the Crucifixion or Resurrection. Indeed, Pentecost seems to explain those events since it creates the church that is the voice and vicar of Christ across time and through ...