Father Ron's Ramblings

By The Rev. Ronald J. Baillie

May 19 is Pentecost Sunday. This is the last big Sunday, a feast day in the medieval church, before we enter ordinary or normal time. And we wear red on Pentecost because red is the liturgical color of the Holy Spirit. Red is the color of fire and symbolizes the presence of God. Just as Moses saw the burning bush as a symbol of God’s presence, so we wear red as a symbol of God’s presence with us, but also as a reminder of the coming of the Spirit on that Pentecost after the resurrection and ascension of Christ.

Let's look at the work of the Holy Spirit, which is not something we often do. In the 19th century most western Christians, but not all, bought into the idea that the sign gifts of the Spirit, the extraordinary manifestations of the Holy Spirit which include speaking in tongues, gifts of knowledge, gifts of healing, and other sign gifts ceased with the end of the apostolic age. In other words, we believed that when the apostles died, and the Scriptures as we know them today were finished, that God had given us all we needed to proclaim the Good News.

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