EASTER TO PENTECOST
Let him easter in us,
be a dayspring to the dimness of us,
be a crimson-cresseted east—-
- - Gerad Manley Hopkins, S.J.
Wreck of the Deutchland
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THE GREAT AND JOYFUL FEAST OF PENTECOST rounds off the tremendous mysteries that we have been commemorating since Holy Week - the Passion, the Death, the Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus culminates in the sending of the Spirit of the Father and the Son on his disciples. As has been said previously, we are not dealing here merely with separate historical incidents but with one reality - the extraordinary intervention of God into our lives by what we can only call the "mystery" of Christ. And the feast of Pentecost indicates that it is an ongoing reality, which still touches our lives every single day.
— Frank Doyle SJ