Pentecost in the Old Covenant. As we summarize the account of Pentecost, we’re left with the reality: The fire fell but Our Lady and the apostles in the Upper Room were not consumed.

On Pentecost, those who experienced the Spirit’s indwelling spoke in “other tongues” (Acts 2:4). These early believers presumably didn’t understand the words they were speaking and didn ...

May 28, 2023, Pentecost Sunday: ... Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire” (Acts 2:2-3). Fire and wind remain familiar images of the Spirit even today.

Speech was not God’s only miracle at Pentecost. The Spirit also gave the gift of understanding, overcoming division and contempt. Tongues of fire, everywhere. In this loud and furious age, a ...

And your sons and your daughters will prophesy, Your old men will have dreams, Your young men will see visions. And even on the male and female servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days ...

Suddenly, someone yells “Fire!” upon seeing the tongues of flame appear. ... In Pentecost Christianity, there must be room for others who look or believe or act differently from me.

A former enclosed Carmelite nun recalls a powerful if quirky Pentecost custom from her years in the cloister . It should not come as a surprise that a decade or more in the cloister leaves the ...

There appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, ... The word “Pentecost” means “50th” and the term is taken from the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.

At Pentecost, there were tongues of fire from heaven, and human beings like ready lamps, waiting to be lit. At Amsterdam, there were committees, agenda, resolutions, debates, and trilingual earphones.

Suddenly, someone yells “Fire!” upon seeing the tongues of flame appear. ... In Pentecost Christianity, there must be room for others who look or believe or act differently from me.