A clergyman elevates a monstrance in a Eucharistic procession through the Manhattan borough of New York City to St. Patrick’s Cathedral for a Pentecost vigil May 27, 2023. OSV NEWS PHOTO/JEFFREY BRUNO
Source & Summit: Pentecost Sunday
(The faithful) taking part in the Eucharistic sacrifice, which is the source and summit of the whole Christian life, offer the Divine Victim to God, and themselves along with it.
-The Second Vatican Council fathers in Lumen Gentium, #11
Source & Summit is a feature of The Western Kentucky Catholic online, celebrating the National Eucharistic Revival: Year of Parish Revival. Intended to help Catholics of our parishes to probe the riches of our liturgical year and celebrate the liturgy well, the column will always start with the Bible readings for the Mass of the Day to help us reflect on, and help to “unpack” and expand our experiences at liturgy into the domestic church (the home) and the workplace.
Sunday reflections will be based on the Lord’s Day, the Liturgy, the Eucharist, and, occasionally, community.
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Pentecost Sunday
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/pentecost-sunday-mass-during-day
Acts 2:1-11
Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34
1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13
Jn 20:19-23
Have you ever been afraid to pray aloud in front of a group of people? Or did not feel holy enough to be a leader in your parish or your family? Or unequipped to share the Gospel? We think we don’t have the right words, knowledge, or faith, but we don’t need all of that because we have been given the gift of the Holy Spirit.
We read in the Book of Romans that, “we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes with inexpressible groanings.” We don’t have the right words, but that’s okay, because the Spirit does.
In the first letter to the Corinthians St. Paul writes, “There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone. To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit.”
The Spirit will provide the gifts and talents required to answer God’s call on our lives, in our parishes, our families, and in our workplaces. He gives us the gifts of wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of God.
He knows us, and he knew we would doubt ourselves, so he gave us the Spirit that we might not be afraid.
-Riley Greif
Riley Greif is the digital media specialist in the Office of Communications.
To learn more about the Diocese of Owensboro’s celebration of the National Eucharistic Revival, visit https://owensborodiocese.org/eucharistic-revival/.
