Last Sunday the season of Easter come to an end as we celebrated Pentecost Sunday and moved into the liturgical season of Ordinary Time.  Pentecost was one of the Jewish Feast Days, known as Feast of Harvest or the Feast of Weeks.  This feast day celebrated the early wheat harvest and came during the months of May and June.   

The Greek name Pentecost recollects the time the disciples gathered to celebrate Feast of the Harvest, and it was during this time that the disciples were filled with the gift of the Holy Spirit and able to speak in different languages.  This event signified the birth of the Church, as early believers were filled with the Holy Spirit, empowering them to continue the mission of Jesus. 

Today we celebrate Pentecost and acknowledge that it is in fact “the season of the Spirit in which we live, a season in which our lives are changed.  It is a time to commit ourselves by prayer, conversation and small commitments to reconciling the huge differences and hostilities in our world” (Andrew Hamilton SJ, from Australian Catholics, 2021).   

What small thing can we do to reconcile with others this week? 

Liturgical Meditations - Pentecost - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5w3upHui48&t=126s.
The liturgical meditation series to which this video belongs relies on nature to tell the story of God, accompanied by scriptures traditional to each season.

God’s Blessings 

Megan Mahoney
Assistant to the Principal Formation & Identity