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Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Pentecost and the Gift of Language

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Today's readings recount the unforgettable events of Pentecost. Language is our primary mode of communication. How wonderful, therefore, that the principle gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost is tongues - speech, language - enabling the first disciples to establish heart-to-heart communication with the peoples of the world. The Holy Spirit himself is nothing but communication for the Spirit is nothing other than the love that connects the Father and the Son. When the disciples, filled with Holy Spirit, go out to communicate on Pentecost, they effectively unite the world by gathering what sin has scattered.

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This is Archbishop Blasupich, Archbishop of Chicago.

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Today I invite you to reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the

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Word on Fire.

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Word on Fire, Catholic Ministries, is a non-for-profit apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization

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that utilizes media both old and new to share the faith on every continent and facilitate

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and encounter with Christ in His church.

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The efforts of Word on Fire, Catholic Ministries, engage the culture and bring the transformative

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power of God's Word where it is most needed.

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This is an invitation to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's Word of

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love for each of us.

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When our hearts are open, the Lord changes and transforms us so that we enter and begin

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to share the warmth and light of Jesus Christ, who is the Word on Fire.

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The global benefactors of Word on Fire, Catholic Ministries, with the support of the Archdiocese

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of Chicago, now present Word on Fire.

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Peace be with you and happy solemnity of Pentecost, one of the really great feast days

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of the Christian year, the feast of the Holy Spirit.

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Our first reading, everybody from the Acts of the Apostles, conveys the unforgettable

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excitement of the first Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit into the life of the

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church.

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We hear of the wind and the tongues of fire, but what's always struck me as the most

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extraordinary, mysterious, and moving is the gift of tongues.

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The ability that these Galilean fishermen suddenly had to speak in a variety of foreign

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