Pentecost Sunday, Year C

And there came suddenly from heaven a sound like the sweeping of a mighty wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.
~Acts 2:2
 
New voices. Fresh winds of the Spirit. Chaos. Yet, from it, something new and true. And with it, as with anything new, or sometimes, ancient, came resistance: They’re just drunk! They aren’t reliable. We have what we need. It’s all there in these eras of change. Some days it all feels just so fragile and brittle and unfinished. Sometimes it is just infuriating, the degradation of the things we value, hope for, work for. We live in a binary time. Either or. Yes or no. True or false. Good or bad. Us or them. But truth embedded in our stories is always more complex and nuanced than the ways we talk about it. It can seem easier to just back away than to fail or flail or flame out.
 
But, understood differently, there is nothing new under the sun. This is always the way it’s been. Let Wil Gafney have this last word as we spend this last Sunday with her texts: While the outpouring of the Spirit on Pentecost might have marked the dawn of the Church, it did not mark the dawn of the Holy Spirit. She was there at creation. She is with us now. She always is. Spread the word!
 
Enter into worship.
 
Readings: Isaiah 44:1-8 † Psalm 104:1–4, 10–15, 27–30 † Romans 8:14–17 † Acts 2:1–18
 
About the Art: Kraut, Ronald. Pentecost, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56950 [retrieved May 20, 2025]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0329jfOur_Lady_of_Pentecost_Parish_Church_Quezon_City_Loyola_Heightsfvf_25.jpg.

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