Pentecost: Updated

This reflection is a summary of the blogs posted from Ascension Sunday until Pentecost Sunday.  All the above examples are expressions of the human person to rise above the noise and confusion of earthly and mundane life.  This begins with a “sacred action” or what is also called sacrifice.  This is central to the Christian faith, which confesses that Christ offered himself through the Baptism in the Jordan leading to his ministry and death after which he “arose from the dead, and ascended into heaven,” and the out pouring of the Holy Spirit.  There is something sacred, ethereal, spiritual, and heavenly to our encounter with the Divine, but there is also something that renews, restores, and revives upon the earth and throughout the mundane world.  God’s will is done on earth as in heaven (Mt 6:10). The community partakes in the sacred act of praise (Heb 13:15) and a sacred act of sharing with those in need (v. 16).  The Church, in Christ, becomes a sign and instrument of communion with God and unity among all peoples (Lumen Gentium 1).  Uniqueness about Pentecost is when the Holy Spirit comes, the lips, hearts, and minds of those present are lifted, praise, and speak of the glorified one (Acts 2:11, 24, 32-35), but their limbs are spread out and they share their spiritual fruits and earthly goods with one another (vv. 42-45). 

Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan (Artist: He Qi) 

Pentecost (Artist: He Qi)