Daily Archives: May 28, 2023
A Prayer for Pentecost from the ACNA Prayerbook
O God, who on this day taught the hearts of your faithful people by sending to them the light of your Holy Spirit: Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
'Come down, O love divine'
Today is #Pentecost when we celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples.
Everyone is welcome to join us at our services today, including Sung Eucharist at 10.30am and Evensong at 3.00pm: https://t.co/yimqhvvbo0 pic.twitter.com/ziLDO7DAfn
— Westminster Abbey (@wabbey) May 28, 2023
From the Morning Bible Readings
When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in much fear and trembling; and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification. None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man conceived,
what God has prepared for those who love him,”
God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
–1 Corinthians 2:1-10
Pentecost Sunday
Gospel of the Day (John 20,19-23)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."https://t.co/mtqLEAVf17 pic.twitter.com/OYu6wxNm3M
— Vatican News (@VaticanNews) May 28, 2023