Pentecost

Concerned Lay Catholics has a special fondness for the Feast of Pentecost. Not only is our logo reminiscent of the descent of the Holy Spirit, but we officially launched our website at Pentecost in 2021. This year we share this beautiful reflection from Unfolding Light by Pastor Steve-Garnaas-Holmes.

On Pentecost the real miracle

was not the momentary wonder

of people speaking languages

they hadn't been taught,

but the lasting miracle

of people making connections

despite all their separations,

discovering how they were alike

despite apparent differences,

knowing belonging

despite their being foreign.

They were one;

the boundaries did not exist.

They found a shared story,

tapped into the one Spirit

that breathed in them all.

Wonder at this: not that you could

speak some foreign language

but that you could love someone

who speaks a foreign language,

knowing by listening that

your hearts speak the same language,

you and they breathe the same Spirit,

one breath in all of us,

members of one body.

Something divine is going on,

partly in your heart and partly in theirs.

Only together will you behold the miracle.

Amen.

-Steve Garnaas-Holmes, Unfolding Light