Today is the Day of Pentecost according to the church calendar.
A festival Sunday celebrating the coming of the Holy Spirit in, with, through and among us. Jesus has ascended into heaven and the Spirit descended to be among the people.
The color today is red, which marks the fire of that same Holy Spirit. Pentecost is a word that means 50 days, and we are 50 days from Easter. The Holy Spirit is our conscience, the voice within our hearts leading us and guiding us every day to serve the Lord with joy and thanksgiving.
The Acts, chapter 2, first lesson is read every Day of Pentecost! It is the hardest lesson for any lector to read, with multiple hard to understand and read names of cities and countries. The point is the movement of the Holy Spirit goes across the land, and the world.
At the beginning of that passage the Bible says “they were all together in one place!” And so are we! Amen.
Introduction
Fifty days after Easter, we celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. Crossing all boundaries that would separate us, the Spirit brings the wideness of God’s mercy to places we least expect it—to a crowd of strangers of different lands and tongues, to dry bones, to our weak hearts. Jesus promises his disciples that they will be accompanied by the Holy Spirit, and that this Spirit reveals the truth. We celebrate that we too have been visited with this same Spirit. Guided by the truth, we join together in worship, and then disperse to share the fullness of Christ’s love with the world.
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