{"id":183109,"date":"2026-05-21T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.fundacioncarf.org\/pentecostes-el-amigo-que-acompana-orienta-y-anima\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:55:39","slug":"espiritu-santo-pentecostes-que-acompana-orienta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/espiritu-santo-pentecostes-que-acompana-orienta\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentecost: the Holy Spirit accompanies, guides and animates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1<\/sup>On the anniversary of Pentecost<\/strong>, were all together in the same place.\u00a02<\/sup>Suddenly, there came from the sky a roar, as of a wind blowing strongly, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.\u00a03<\/sup>They saw tongues, like flames, appear and divide, landing on top of each of them.\u00a04<\/sup>They were all filled with Holy Spirit<\/a><\/strong> And they began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance\u00bb (Acts 2:1-4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pentecost or Shavuot<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the Jews, it was one of the three great feasts. At the beginning, thanksgiving for the harvesting of grain (first fruits), but this was joined by the feast for the giving of the Torah, the Torah<\/a><\/em>the\u00a0\"instruction manual\"<\/em>\u00a0of the world and of man, which granted wisdom to Israel. It was the feast of the Covenant to live always according to the will of God manifested in his Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The images that St. Luke uses to indicate the irruption of the Holy Spirit-the wind and the fire-allude to Sinai, where God had revealed himself to the people of Israel and had granted them his covenant (cf. Ex 19:3ff). The feast of Sinai, which Israel celebrated fifty days after Passover, was the feast of the covenant. In speaking of tongues of fire (cf. Acts 2:3), St. Luke wants to present the Upper Room as a new Sinai, as the feast of the Covenant that God makes with his Church, which he will never abandon: this is Pentecost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Holy Father asks all the pastors and faithful of the Catholic Church to join in prayer this Pentecost together with the Catholic Ordinaries of\u00a0Holy Land<\/a>, The Pope said: \"We are calling on the Holy Spirit, so that Israelis and Palestinians may find the path of dialogue and forgiveness.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shavuot <\/em>is the Jewish holiday commemorating the giving of the Ten Commandments of God's Law to Moses on Mount Sinai, after the flight of the people of Israel from Egypt. Therefore, it takes place seven weeks after Passover, which is the most important holiday for the Jews, since it celebrates the liberation of the Jewish people from Pharaoh's slavery. In Hebrew \u201cShavuot\u201d means \u201cweeks\u201d and also means oath: the covenant that God made with his people through the Law.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day of Pentecost<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By the power of the Holy Spirit they make themselves understood by all, whatever their origin and mentality: Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. And when the noise was heard, the multitude came together and were perplexed, for each one heard them speaking in his own language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were astonished and wondered, saying, \"Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? How is it, then, that we hear them each in our own mother tongue? \"Parthians, Medes, Elamites, inhabitants of Mesopotamia, of Judea and Cappadocia, of Pontus and Asia, of Phrygia and Pamphylia, of Egypt and the part of Libya near Cyrene, Roman strangers, as well as Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs, we hear them speaking in our own tongues the great things of God (Acts 2:5-11).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The action of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens that day, with the action of the Holy Spirit, is the antithesis of what the Bible had told about the origins of mankind: At that time the whole earth spoke one language and with the same words. Moving from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Let's make bricks and bake them in the fire! In this way, the bricks served them as stones and the asphalt as mortar. Then they said: -Let us build us a city and a tower whose top reaches to heaven! So shall we make a name for ourselves, that we may not be scattered over the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men were building, and the Lord said, \"They are one people, with one language for all, and this is only the beginning of their work; now nothing they try to do will be impossible for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us go down and confuse their language right there, so that they will no longer understand one another! So from there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth, and they ceased to build the city. Therefore it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth (Gen 11:1-9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pope Francis<\/strong><\/a> recalled during the celebration of Pentecost 2021 in Rome that the Holy Spirit consoles \u00abespecially in difficult moments like the one we are going through\u00bb, and in a very personal way because \u00abonly the one who makes us feel loved as we are gives peace of heart\u00bb. In fact, \u00abit is the very tenderness of God, who does not leave us alone, because to be with those who are alone is already to console\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pentecost: active communication<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

When the people in the biblical story began to work as if God did not exist, they found that they themselves had become dehumanized, because they had lost a fundamental element of human beings, which is the ability to agree, to understand each other and to act together. This text contains a perennial truth. In such a technified society, with so many means of communication and information, as the contemporary one, we speak less and less and we understand each other less and less, we lose the real capacity to communicate in an open and sincere dialogue. We need something to help us recover this capacity to be open to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The action of the Holy Spirit<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

What human pride has broken, the action of the Holy Spirit puts back together again. Today too, docility to the Holy Spirit is what gives us the help we need to build a more humane world, in which no one feels alone, deprived of the attention and affection of others. Jesus promised it to the apostles and to each one of us: I will pray the Father and he will give you another Paraclete to be with you always (Jn 14:16). He uses a Greek word\u00a0para-klet\u00f3s<\/em>\u00a0which means \"the one who speaks next to\":\u00a0is the friend who accompanies us, encourages us and guides us along the way.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that we are talking to God in this time of prayer, we ask ourselves in his presence: do I strive to build my professional and family life, my friendships, the society in which I live, as a world built by my own efforts without caring about God? Or do I want to listen and be docile to the loving voice of the Holy Spirit, that inseparable companion that Jesus has placed at my side to guide and encourage me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can invoke the Holy Spirit with an ancient and beautiful prayer of the Church: Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and enkindle in them the fire of your Love. And we ask the Blessed Virgin, Spouse of God the Holy Spirit, that, like her, we may let him do great things in our souls, so that we may know how to love God and others, and build with his help a better world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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