In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence. I beg your pardon for my sins, and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My Immaculate Mother, St. Joseph, my father and Lord,

my guardian angel, intercede for me.

This Sunday we celebrate a great solemnity of Pentecost, the great solemnity of the Holy Spirit.

He is sent by the Father and the Son so that we are not left orphans.

Once Jesus left, he wanted to do something that no one else can do, which is to remain with us.

And he does that through the presence of the Holy Spirit, who will speak in the name of Christ,

and who will lead us to all the truth, remind us of everything that Jesus

did and taught. We know what happened on that great day. Everybody was amazed. They were not

expecting such a spectacle.

When the apostles recall they were gathered in the upper room,

there with Mary and the other women, and all of a sudden,

there came a sound from heaven, says St. Luke in the Acts of the Apostles,

as of a violent wind blowing, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

And there appeared to them parted tongues as a fire which settled upon each of them

and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign tongues

even as the Holy Spirit prompted them to speak.

Everyone was speaking in their own native tongue, and yet everyone understood each other.

This certainly stands in contrast with what happened at the Tower of Babel, when everyone was united in the one cause of making a tower to outdo God, to kind of reach God.

They wanted basically to become like God, as Adam and Eve were tempted to become or to desire to become.

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