What do the ascension and pentacost have to do with the rest of Jesus' mission?

Tim Staples is next.

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Facebook or YouTube to see what the new studio situation is like. This week, Tim Staples is here with

us. And at the end of Jesus' earthly ministry, he ascends into heaven, and then shortly thereafter,

we have the descent of the Holy Spirit, which we celebrate in the feasts of the ascension and

pentacost in the Catholic faith. And there's an intertwining here of the missions of Jesus and

the Spirit. Out of love for us, the Father sends Jesus, but He also sends the Holy Spirit and

they have each has their salvific mission on our behalf. And here at the end,

they're intertwined in ways that are a bit mysterious. So we ask Tim Staples to come by and

untwine the mysteries a little bit for us. Here's what Tim had to say.

Tim Staples, thank you for being here. Talk about the Holy Spirit.

Great to be with you, my brother. You are pro-Holy Spirit?

I am in favor. We just celebrated in the Catholic Church the ascension of Jesus.

And now coming up is the feast of pentacost, which we think of as the descent of the Holy Spirit.

There's a relationship between these two things. Oh boy, there really is, in fact not long ago,

I was talking with Carlo about this. You know, the ascension and pentacost are so closely related.

The Catholicism of Catholic Church in paragraph 517 talks about how Christ's entire life is

redemptive, right? Not just his death on the cross. The ascension and pentacost, now maybe it's

because I'm weird, but this is what I think of. Makes me think of everything that Jesus did

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