Pentecost
Pentecost
is about witnessing. Jesus promises that the Spirit will come to
testify, be a witness on his behalf. Jesus also commissions the
disciples to be witnesses: are you and I also ready to testify?
Pentecost is about being witnessed to, and also about being witnesses.
How do we become Christian witnesses?
We do this by attending to how
the Spirit witnesses to us, for example through The Spiritual Exercises. Like those early witnesses to
Jesus, the Spirit can awaken our spirit to respond to Jesus. This comes
from intimacy with Jesus: in private moments of intimacy, such as the
privacy of a quiet White House retreat and in communal moments like
participation in the liturgy, where two are three are gathered in Jesus
name -- we know that he is present here among us.
Pentecost
challenges us to make space and time for the Spirit in our noisy lives.
In this way the Spirit can witnesses to us with many gifts, but we have
open ourselves to receive these gifts, discern our gifts in community,
gifts of the spirit such as: Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness,
Generosity, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self control.
How are you called to be
a witness here and now? Today, let us once again invite the Pentecost
Spirit into our lives, the Spirit who draws us inward to discernment,
the Spirit who compels us outward to be witnesses to Jesus
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