Sunday, May 24, 2015
Day of Pentecost
Day of Pentecost
On the fiftieth day
of Easter we celebrate the Spirit, through whom and in whom the people of God
are created and re-created. Pentecost is sometimes called the church's
birthday, but might more appropriately be called its baptism day, since the
gift of the Spirit is the fullness of baptism. Ezekiel's vision shows the
Spirit resurrecting and re-creating not just individuals but a whole people.
Romans makes it clear that God is in the process of re-creating the entire
cosmos; yet the Spirit is also at work in the most intimate and personal way,
praying in us "with sighs too deep for words" when we do not know how
to pray.
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