Posts Tagged ‘receive the Holy Spirit’

“Hear the Word!” by Bill Ayres: Pentecost Sunday

Note: We can pray with the Sunday readings even if Sunday liturgies have been suspended due to the coronavirus. Bill Ayres continues to offer his reflections to help our prayer. A reading from the Acts of the Apostles (Chapter 2:1-11)   If you wonder why there were so many people from so many countries in ...Read More

“Hear the Word!” by Bill Ayres: Pentecost Sunday

A reading from the Acts of the Apostles (Chapter 2:1-11)   If you wonder why there were so many people from so many countries in Jerusalem on the occasion described in this passage, it was because Pentecost was first a Jewish feast and a time when pilgrims from all over the near world ...Read More

“Hear the Word!” by Bill Ayres: Second Sunday of Easter

A reading from the Acts of the Apostles (Chapter 5:12-16)   We know from many stories in the gospels that Jesus was a healer. Here we read that he passed on that power to the apostles: “Many signs and wonders were done among the people at the hands of the apostles. . . ...Read More

Pentecost Sunday – Receive the Holy Spirit

“On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ When he had said this, he showed them his hands and ...Read More