Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Today is the Feast of Pentecost.

Pope Benedict in one of his homilies on this feast said that this feast is distinguished from all the solemnities by its importance since what Jesus

himself had announced as the purpose of his whole mission on Earth is found

in this feast. Indeed, on his way up to Jerusalem he had declared to his disciples,

I came to cast fire upon the earth and would that it were already burning. These words

were most visibly brought about 50 days after the resurrection at Pentecost, the feast par excellence of the Holy Spirit.

There appeared to them tongues as of fire, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit.

The real fire, the Holy Spirit was brought to the earth by Christ and God wants to continue giving this fire to every person in every generation.

Then Pope Benedict said that there is a normal way which God himself chose to cast fire upon the earth, and this way is Jesus.

Then the Pope said,

In today's solemnity, scripture tells us once again how the Christian community

should be, what we should do in order to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, this

fire from above and we see it at the end of the account of Pentecost in Acts chapter 2 verse 41 and 42

which tells us that the first Christian community was devoted to four things

that set them on fire. They were devoted to the teaching of the apostles,

to friendship, to the breaking of the bread, and to prayer. And if we want to receive the fire of the Holy

Spirit, then we have to be devoted to the same four things.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow would be your name, thy kingdom come thy

will be done on earth as adieu in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead

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