Sunday, May 19
Pentecost Sunday – Solemnity
Roman Ordinary calendar
Acts of the Apostles 2,1-11.
When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together.
And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were.
Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them.
And they were all filled with the holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.
Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven staying in Jerusalem.
At this sound, they gathered in a large crowd, but they were confused because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
They were astounded, and in amazement they asked, “Are not all these people who are speaking Galileans?
Then how does each of us hear them in his own native language?
We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya near Cyrene, as well as travelers from Rome,
both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs, yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty acts of God.”
Psalms 104(103),1.24.29-30.31.34.
Bless the LORD, O my soul!
O LORD, my God, you are great indeed!
You are clothed with majesty and glory,
How manifold are your works, O LORD!
the earth is full of your creatures;
If you take away their breath, they perish
and return to their dust.
When you send forth your spirit, they are created,
and you renew the face of the earth.
If you May the glory of the LORD endure forever;
may the LORD be glad in his works!
Pleasing to him be my theme;
I will be glad in the LORD.
Letter to the Galatians 5,16-25.
I say, then: live by the Spirit and you will certainly not gratify the desire of the flesh.
For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you want.
But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, licentiousness,
idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness, dissensions, factions,
occasions of envy, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
In contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,
gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
Now those who belong to Christ (Jesus) have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also follow the Spirit.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 15,26-27.16,12-15.
Jesus said to his disciples: “When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me.
And you also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming.
He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.”
Blessed Marie-Eugène of the Child Jesus (1894 – 1967)
Carmelite, Founder of Notre Dame de Vie
I want to see God, Transforming Union
The Spirit, in each soul and in the Church, builds the fullness of Christ
The divine work of sanctification of the Church and of souls is attributed to the Holy Spirit because it is par excellence a work of love and the Holy Spirit is the inspiration of love of the Father and the Son. (…)
The Holy Spirit descends on the apostles on the day of Pentecost, and takes possession of the soul as a temple on the day of baptism to carry out this work of the incarnation of divine life. We know the plan set for it, this eternal design of God which creates unity of the action of the Holy Spirit in the Church and in souls. “It is in Christ that God chose us from before the creation of the world and predestined us to be his adopted children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, to bring forth the glory of grace that he has given us through his beloved Son. » (Eph 1,4-6)
The action of the Holy Spirit is entirely oriented towards this effective realization of divine adoption in us and towards this expansion of Christ Jesus in our souls through the diffusion of his grace. The Spirit, in each soul and in the Church, builds the fullness of Christ, the total Christ who is the Church. In fact, the grace that he spreads in souls is a filial grace which closely relates us to the Word by making us sons by adoption as he himself is a son by nature. “You have received,” says the Apostle, “the spirit of adopted sons which makes us cry: Abba, Father. » (Rm 8,15) This grace which thus proclaims its name, gives us the likeness of the Word when we make it ours through this contemplation in which the Holy Spirit still intervenes. (…)
The divine life in us is the life of Christ; it proceeds from Him and unites us to Him to constitute with Him a new reality, the entire vine, the total Christ made of Christ and his members.
Catholicism Pure & Simple 
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