Our Lord, Jesus Christ, knew that His disciples would experience great sorrow — “Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall weep and lament…” — when He ascended into heaven, leaving them behind to “Go into the whole world … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Pentecost
Tongues, Emotionalism, and the Catholic Sobriety and Hilarity of Father Rutler
Do not misunderstand. Father Rutler is not condemning genuine enthusiasm, just the affected sham that is its evangelical counterfeit. Crisis Magazine, Fr. George Rutler: The amiable classicist, John Bird Sumner, was the Protestant archbishop of Canterbury from 1848 to 1862. … Continue reading
“They Shall Speak With New Tongues” Mark 16:17
Reading in the Book of Acts about the events of Pentecost, three physical things accentuate the spiritual. In fact, without them, the coming of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles would be impossible to imagine, being, as we are, creatures … Continue reading
The Fire of Pentecost
Summer begins on my calendar after our May Procession. In meteorological time, it begins June 1. What this means is that the season of summer extends through the warmest months of the year, which in the Northern Hemisphere are June, … Continue reading