Pentecost Sunday
We'll revisit last year's thought about Pentecost: Pentecost brings the Holy Spirit front and center. Too often, we find God the Holy Spirit ignored, compared to God the Father and God the Son. Part of the reason, I think is that He is not as "sensible" as the Son (Jesus, Who became man and lived amongst us) and the Father, who we frequently portray and therefore "see" in some human form. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, remains more "spiritual" in form to our human sensibilities, thus harder to grasp. Even when He is "seen" as a bird, a dove, it's not the same as our human image of Jesus and God the Father. At least that's my two cents, for what it's worth (two cents at best!). And given that many of us suffer this kind of vagueness in our understanding of the Holy Spirit, consider these words from the entry for Pentecost in The Inner Life of the Soul . It contrasts our reception of the Holy Spirit on this P...