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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for Vocations
DESCRIPTION:RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT \nFrom a commentary by St Augustine5 \n◊◊◊ \nThe happy day has dawned for us on which Holy Church makes her first \nradiant appearance to the eyes of faith and sets the hearts of believers on fire. It \nis the day on which we celebrate the sending of the Holy Spirit by our Lord Jesus \nChrist\, after he had risen from the dead and ascended into glory. In the gospel it is \nwritten: If anyone is thirsty\, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me\, \nrivers of living water shall flow from his heart. The Evangelist explains these words \nby adding: Jesus said this about the Spirit which those who believed in him were to \nreceive. For the Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified. \nNow the glorification of Jesus took place when he rose from the dead and ascended \ninto heaven\, but all was not yet accomplished. The Holy Spirit still had to be given; \nthe one who made the promise had to send him. This is precisely what occurred \nat Pentecost. \nAfter being in the company of his disciples for the forty days following his \nresurrection\, the Lord ascended into heaven\, and on the fiftieth day – the day we \nare now celebrating – he sent the Holy Spirit. The account is given in Scripture: \nSuddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind\, and there \nappeared to them tongues like fire which separated and came to rest on each one of \nthem. And they began to speak in other tongues\, as the Holy Spirit gave them power \nof utterance. That wind cleansed the disciples’ hearts\, blowing away fleshly \nthoughts like so much chaff. The fire burnt up their unregenerate desires as if they \nwere straw. The tongues in which they spoke as the Holy Spirit filled them were a \n5 Journey with the Fathers: Commentaries on the Sunday Gospels – Year A. Ed. Edith Barnecut\, OSB. \nNew York: New City Press\, 1992. 72-73.11 \nforeshadowing of the Church’s preaching of the Gospel in the tongues of all \nnations. \nAfter the flood\, in pride and defiance of the Lord\, an impious generation \nerected a high tower and so brought about the division of the human race into \nmany language groups\, each with its own peculiar speech which was unintelligible \nto the rest of the world. At Pentecost\, by contrast\, the humble piety of believers \nbrought all these diverse languages into the unity of the Church. What discord had \nscattered\, love was to gather together. Like the limbs of a single body\, the \nseparated members of the human race would be restored to unity by being joined \nto Christ\, their common head\, and welded into the oneness of a holy body by the \nfire of love. Anyone therefore who rejects the gift of peace and withdraws from \nthe fellowship of this unity cuts himself off from the gift of the Holy Spirit. \nSo then\, my fellow members of Christ’s body\, you are the fruits of unity and \nthe children of peace. Keep this day with joy\, celebrate it in freedom of spirit\, for \nin you is fulfilled what was foreshadowed in those days when the Holy Spirit came. \nAt that time whoever received the Holy Spirit spoke in many languages\, individual \nthough he was. Now in the same way unity itself speaks through all nations in \nevery tongue. If you yourselves are established in that unity you have the Holy \nSpirit among you\, and nothing can separate you from the Church of Christ which \nspeaks in the language of every nation of the world.
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