Become forgiveness

Greetings on this Pentecost Sunday
Readings: Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34; 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13;

Summary

The gift of the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Holy Trinity. Just as each of the gospel accounts start with an introduction to the life of Jesus and his purpose in the Incarnation, so too the Holy Spirit announces his life and purpose to us at Pentecost.

Offering to All People

• For each Individual, We hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty acts of God.
• For every Baptised, To each the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit.
• For the Whole World, Send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.

Change in the Person

• Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them.
• In every gift the purpose, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.
• In every heart, Holy Spirit, whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.

For the Everlasting Benefit

• Give them virtue’s sure reward (this life).
• Give them your salvation, Lord (next life).
• Give them joys that never end (all life).

Reflection

The giving of the Holy Spirit is as a gift from the Father and from the Son (“proceeds”). The person of the Spirit was given in the Peace of Christ (“Peace be with you”). The person of the Spirit was given in the Breath of the Divine (new creation as in Genesis). The mission of the Holy Spirit is the forgiveness of Sins (the power to become forgiveness).

Personal Reflection

And if he has done you any injustice or owes you anything, charge it to me (Phil 1:18).

In my life the Holy Spirit moves me to forgive. I can only completely do that in the peace of Christ and the love of God, the Father. The prayer of Jesus (the Our Father) has one requirement of us, [to] forgive those who trespass against us.

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.

First Reading

We hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty acts of God.

Responsorial

Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.

Second Reading

To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit.

Sequence

Give them virtue’s sure reward;
Give them your salvation, Lord;
Give them joys that never end.
Amen.
Alleluia.

Here: https://deacongerrypalermo.blog/2022/06/05/veni-sancte-spiritus/

Gospel Acclamation

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.

Gospel

Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.”

Peace be with you,
Deacon Gerry