“Lord, send out Your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.”  With these words of today’s Psalm, we enter the great feast of Pentecost.  Forty days after we left the empty tomb, we found ourselves looking up into the heavens to see Christ ascend to the Father on the Feast of the Ascension.  It has been ten days since Christ was taken up into Heaven and fifty days since He rose from the dead.  It is now the moment for the descent of the Holy Spirit.  This Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Most Holy Trinity, comes into the world to “renew the face of the earth.”  This same  Holy Spirit hoovered over the waters at the moment of the creation of the world; this same Holy Spirit invigorated the early prophets; this same Holy Spirit overshadowed our Blessed Mother and She then conceived Christ in Her womb; this same Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles with our Lady in the    upper room, which is depicted in the Pentecost stained glass window in the Church, as seen above.  In each instance and in countless others not here mentioned, those effected by the Holy Spirit went out immediately to all the world and furthered God’s plan.  So, today, you have received the Holy Spirit ~ “Go . . . and make disciples of all nations!” (Matthew 28:19a)

Come, Holy Spirit!

Yours in Christ,
Fr. Wayne