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Pentecost is one of my favorite celebrations in the Church because it is a scene of such great triumph and transformation, which continues to this very day.
We all heard it when we were kids, that dire warning: “Don’t play with fire!” “Stay away from the stove, it’s hot!”
On Pentecost Sunday, though, that goes out the window. As we see in the Gospel reading for this Sunday (John 20:19-23), the apostles start to play with fire – those tongues of flame that come to rest above them – and the rest is history. It is a history that affects every believing Christian, and it is a history that is still unfolding.