Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an

apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization using media both old and

new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with

Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring

the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite

you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the

warmth and light of Christ with each one of us. Peace be with you. Friends,

we come to this great feast of Pentecost, the culmination of the Easter season,

the feast that along with Easter and Christmas is the most important in the

church year and it sort of par excellence the feast of the Holy Spirit. I don't

think we talk enough about the Holy Spirit. That's a critique by the way of the

Western Church of the Catholic Church that even though of course we mentioned

and we honor and we worship the Holy Spirit that we don't speak sufficiently of

this third person of the Trinity, there might be some truth to that. Vatican II I

think tried to bring the Holy Spirit very much into the forefront. So I want to

continue in that spirit. All three readings today are marvelous. I want to just

dip in briefly to each one and bring out some features of the Holy Spirit.

Listen now, our first reading is from that second chapter of the Acts of the

Apostles, the famous account of the first Pentecost. When the time for Pentecost

was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. They, the disciples and

the blessed mother. Suddenly, there came from the sky a noise like a strong

driving wind and it filled the entire house where they were. So the wind, the

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