PENTECOST SUNDAY

Today is Pentecost Sunday.........they day the Church was born!  What a perfect day for the confirmation candidates to make their initial commitment.  I am my niece Anna's confirmation sponsor.  She is choosing the name Therese after St.Therese of Lisieux.  She asked for some of my books on her so I gave her a lot of them to read.  She loves St.Therese like her Aunt:)

We were sitting towards the front of Church and I so love the Sacred Heart of Jesus Statue........I feel like he's looking at me and speaking to me!

 Here is a brief history on Pentecost Sunday:

Pentecost Sunday is one of the most ancient feasts of the Church, celebrated early enough to be mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles and in St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians. It is the 50th day after , and it replaces the Jewish feast of Pentecost, which took place 50 days after the Passover and which celebrated the sealing of the Old Covenant on Mount Sinai.

The Acts of the Apostles recounts the story of the original Pentecost: Jews from all over were gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Jewish feast. On that Sunday, ten days after the , the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary were gathered in the Upper Room, where they had seen Christ after His Resurrection. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them parted tongues as it were of fire, and it sat upon every one of them: And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak. Christ had promised His Apostles that He would sent His Holy Spirit, and, on Pentecost, they were granted the . The Apostles began to preach the Gospel in all of the languages that the Jews who were gathered there spoke, and about 3,000 people were converted and that day.

That is why Pentecost is often called "the birthday of the Church." On this day, with the descent of the Holy Spirit, Christ's mission is completed, and the New Covenant is inaugurated.