THE PENTECOST
'And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit' (Acts 2.4)
(From the Bible the work reference tracks produced by Mosaic School of Friuli and, in short, the comment / explanation of Paul Orlando author of the sketches. Photo: Ulderica FROM WELL)
Acts 2,1-4
As he was being fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled all the house where they were.
There appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, the way the Spirit gave them utterance.
In the same room, doors wide open this time, Mary and eleven apostles with tongues of fire. A cloth over the head of all is shaken by a strong wind.
Pentecost brings us back to the Annunciation: the Church is made similar to the Virgin Mother of God, full of grace. By the Holy Spirit, the Word became flesh in the womb of the Virgin and flesh in the womb of the Church. The Logos, the Word proclaimed and present in the Church is God incarnate in the Virgin Mary. From the day of Pentecost the Spirit creates the Church, establishes the community of believers as a place of the presence and permanence of the risen Christ.
The Holy Spirit gives life to the flesh, transforms the meat. It rests on Jesus, on his body: the Incarnation, the Nativity, the Epiphany at the Jordan river, in the Transfiguration. It rests in the body of the Church: in the Pentecost, in the Eucharist. It rests in the body of every person: in the conception of every man!
The Spirit gives the body and aggregates a body, as is visible in the Mass, in the liturgical celebration.