“The actual and habitual guidance of the soul by the Holy Spirit is the essential principle of all divine life…Christ’s mission was to give the Holy Spirit more abundantly.”
Isaac T. Hecker (“The Church and the Age” CA, 24)
June 8, 2025 • Mass Times: 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 11:00 am, 5:00 pm
Pentecost is the day on which we commemorate the coming of the Holy Spirit on the apostles. Before Jesus was put to death, He promised His apostles that He would send His Spirit to comfort and strengthen them. True to His promise, the Holy Spirit was poured out on them on Pentecost, fifty days after His resurrection.
Before the events of the first Pentecost, there were followers of Jesus, but no movement that could be meaningfully called “the church.” From a historical point of view, Pentecost is the day on which the church was started. This is also true from a spiritual perspective since the Holy Spirit brings the church into existence and enlivens it.
As with the early church, our mission since that day is devoted to bringing the truth of Christ to those around us by the way we live out our faith and share it with others.
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