31/05/2020
*Sunday May 31 2020*
PENTECOST SUNDAY
Vestment: Red
Today’s Rosary: Glorious Mystery
Theme of the Sunday: The Spirit, New Law of the Christian. The first reading and the gospel talk of the descent of the Spirit. The stories of Luke and John complement each other and teach us that the Spirit is the new law, the force that leads us to do good. The Spirit is the source of unity. It pulls down barriers and wherever it enters it destroys sin. The second reading describes a consequence of the presence of the Spirit. Each of us has been given gifts by the same Spirit and they must not be a source of competition but must rather be put at the service of unity.
The Easter candle is lit at all Masses today, and if possible, at Evening Prayer. Should Vesper not be celebrated publicly, the Easter candle might be borne in procession at the end of (each) Sunday Mass as a sign that the Easter Season has come to an End.
*Entrance Antiphon* Wis1:7
The Spirit of the Lord has filled the whole world and that which contains all things understands what is said, alleluia.
*COLLECT*
O God, who by the mystery of today’s great feast sanctify your whole Church in every people and nation, pour out, we pray, the gifts of the Holy Spirit across the face of the earth and, with the divine grace that was at work when the Gospel was first proclaimed, fill now once more the hearts of believers. Through our Lord...
*FIRST READING*
“They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues.”
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 2:1-11)
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in