Pentecost Sunday: Pentecost pushes us outward

Speaking to Us Where We Are: Pentecost

Today’s reflection is from Jim McDermott, who is a freelance writer in New York and a regular contributor to Bondings 2.0. Today’s liturgical readings for Pentecost Sunday can be found by clicking here. Pentecost Sunday happened to fall just two days after I got ordained in 2003. One of my ordination classmates had his first Mass as a priest that morning, and as part of his homily, he invited a number of our lay and religious classmates from the…

Pentecost Sunday: Pentecost pushes us outward

Theologians' Corner - God does not wait for us to have everything figured out. Instead, he gives us his Spirit in the middle of our confusion. A question remains — where in your life are you still "behind closed doors"?