Pentecost: the birthday of the Church

Pentecost is all about power and intimacy. It’s all about a faith that matters. It’s all about God in the every day, in every moment of our lives.

Because Pentecost is about a religion that’s alive. It’s about a Church that has the blood of God coursing through it. It’s about a faith that calls all its members parts of the Body of Christ. And that has consequences in our lives.

And that brings us to another thing. Our faith is not private. It is lived amidst our parishioners, among our friends, among the people all over the world where we are called to be with as missionaries. Catholicism does not believe that a personal relationship with Christ is enough, because Jesus did not believe it was enough. If he did, there would have been no Pentecost. Pentecost is the birthday of the Church, all of us experiencing God through Sacraments, all of us working to spread the news of Jesus to the world.

Happy feast of Pentecost to everyone!