Tag: Pentecost
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Signs and Symbols
JOHN KYLER — If we wish to open ourselves to sacramental imagination, we must remain unafraid of being moved and shaken.
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Pentecost as a birthday party???
LIZETTE LARSON — In recent weeks I’ve seen quite a few diocesan newsletters, Christian formation suggestions, and popular ‘liturgy tips’ advocating for a festive parish celebration of Pentecost.
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Radical Henotheism
How are we to be a radically henotheistic church in an increasingly and radically polytheistic world?
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Cultural Appropriation . . . Conversation . . . Incorporation
I firmly believe that the Holy Spirit does not like silos—their walls or containments—and has, from the day described in Acts, desired that peoples come to know each other in the wind of Her wings.
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Veni, Respiratio Spiritus!
“And with that he breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’ ” (John 20:22). I recall hearing this verse on Easter II 2020, and how it tickled my ears in a new way; even moreso in 2021, with a year-plus under my belt of living and attempting to minister in the world of…
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Pentecost: Feast of the Verbification
Perhaps this in-Spirit-ing feast of Pentecost can give the Body of Christ the Voice of the Spirit to oppose, address, and work to end the insane divisions and violence that come from differences in language, race, nationality, and ways of life.
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The Fruit of the Spirit: A Pentecost Novena
It is important to note that St. Paul speaks of one fruit of the Spirit, not many different fruits. This fruit has different sections, or segments, like a citrus fruit, similar to the way that the novena itself is truly one large prayer.
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Reclaiming . . . Who? (A Crisis in Christology)
Discussing this matter with a faithful/dutiful Roman Catholic friend, he asked, “Do our bishops even believe in Christ?”
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The Holy Spirit and the Liturgical Year
The Solemnity of the Annunciation is, in emphasis, a Marian feast and, of course, a celebration of the Incarnation. The Holy Spirit takes a back seat.