Pentecost
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in
one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a
violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided
tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other
languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living
in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because
each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. Amazed and
astonished, they asked, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And
how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? Parthians,
Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and
Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene,
and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs - in our own
languages we hear them speaking about God's deeds of power." All were
amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?"
But others sneered and said, "They are filled with new wine."
But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and
addressed them: "Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be
known to you, and listen to what I say. Indeed, these are not drunk, as you
suppose, for it is only nine o'clock in the morning. No, this is what was
spoken through the prophet Joel:
'In the last days it will be, God declares,
that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh,
and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see
visions,
and your old men shall dream
dreams.
Even upon my slaves, both men and women,
in those days I will pour out my Spirit;
and they shall prophesy.
And I will show portents in the heaven above
and signs on the earth below,
blood, and fire, and smoky
mist.
The sun shall be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood,
before the coming of the Lord's great and
glorious day.
Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.'
Acts 2:1-21
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Let us be silent,
that we may hear the
whispers of the gods.
~
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to speak to God,
tell it to the wind.
~ African Proverb, Ghana
Virtual Baccalaureate Mass and Graduation Ceremony
Paul VI Catholic High School
Fairfax, Virginia
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
John (Jack) Hudson Alexander III
John's (Jack’s) name being read.
Ikebana by Zoom
Arrangement
by Robin Sakamoto
Social Distancing
Peter
Lidiak, Dottie Alexander’s brother, is social distancing in Maine.
Congratulations,
Jack Alexander (Senior)!
My radiant Baby Brother
liked the diploma I sent!!!
There is a voice
that doesn’t use words.
Listen.
~ Rumi
Agnus
Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus
Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
Acts 2:1-21 or Numbers 11:24-30
Psalm
104:24-34, 35b
1
Corinthians 12:3b-13 or Acts 2:1-21
John
20:19-23 or John 7:34-39
Acts
2:1-21
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in
one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a
violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided
tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other
languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living
in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because
each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. Amazed and
astonished, they asked, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And
how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? Parthians,
Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and
Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene,
and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs - in our
own languages we hear them speaking about God's deeds of power." All were
amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?"
But others sneered and said, "They are filled with new wine."
But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and
addressed them: "Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be
known to you, and listen to what I say. Indeed, these are not drunk, as you
suppose, for it is only nine o'clock in the morning. No, this is what was
spoken through the prophet Joel:
'In the last days it will be, God declares,
that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh,
and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see
visions,
and your old men shall dream
dreams.
Even upon my slaves, both men and women,
in those days I will pour out my Spirit;
and they shall prophesy.
And I will show portents in the heaven above
and signs on the earth below,
blood, and fire, and smoky
mist.
The sun shall be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood,
before the coming of the Lord's great and
glorious day.
Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.'
or
Numbers
11:24-30
So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord; and
he gathered seventy elders of the people, and placed them all around the tent.
Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the
spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders; and when the spirit
rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again.
Two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other
named Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those registered,
but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp. And
a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the
camp." And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses, one of his chosen
men, said, "My lord Moses, stop them!" But Moses said to him,
"Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord's people were
prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit on them!" And Moses and
the elders of Israel returned to the camp.
Psalm
104:24-34, 35b
O God, how manifold are your works!
In wisdom
you have made them all;
the earth is full
of your creatures.
Yonder is the sea,
great and wide,
creeping things innumerable
are there,
living things both small
and great.
There go the ships,
and Leviathan
that you formed to sport
in it.
These all look to you
to give them their food in due season;
when you give to them,
they gather it up;
when you open your hand,
they are filled with good things.
When you hide your face,
they are dismayed;
when you take away their breath,
they die and return to their dust.
When you send forth your spirit,
they are created;
and you renew the face
of the ground.
May the glory of God endure
forever;
may God rejoice in God's works —
God who looks on the earth
and it trembles,
God who touches the mountains
and they smoke.
I will sing to God
as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God
while I have being.
May my meditation be pleasing to God,
for in God do I rejoice.
Bless God, O my soul.
Praise be to God!
1
Corinthians 12:3b-13
[N]o one can say "Jesus is Lord" except by the Holy
Spirit.
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there
are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of
activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. To
each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is
given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance
of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit,
to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of
miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to
another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All
these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one
individually just as the Spirit chooses.
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the
members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in
the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body —Jews or Greeks, slaves or
free — and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
or
Acts
2:1-21
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in
one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a
violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided
tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other
languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living
in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because
each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. Amazed and
astonished, they asked, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And
how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? Parthians,
Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and
Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene,
and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs — in our
own languages we hear them speaking about God's deeds of power." All were
amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?"
But others sneered and said, "They are filled with new wine."
But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and
addressed them: "Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be
known to you, and listen to what I say. Indeed, these are not drunk, as you
suppose, for it is only nine o'clock in the morning. No, this is what was
spoken through the prophet Joel:
'In the last days it will be, God declares,
that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh,
and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see
visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.
Even upon my slaves, both men and women,
in those days I will pour out my Spirit;
and they shall prophesy.
And I will show portents in the heaven above
and signs on the earth below,
blood, and fire, and smoky
mist.
The sun shall be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood,
before the coming of the Lord's great and
glorious day.
Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.'
John
20:19-23
When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and
the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the
Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you."
After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples
rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with
you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you." When he had said this, he
breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you
forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any,
they are retained."
or
John
7:37-39
On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was
standing there, he cried out, "Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and
let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, 'Out of the
believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water.'" Now he said this
about the Spirit, which believers in him were to receive; for as yet there was
no Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.