Pentecost Sunday is the most important Sundays that most pastors miss. Yes. You had a great Easter service. Maybe you even hosted Maundy Thursday and Good Friday gatherings in the lead up to Easter, ...

This sermon was preached on Sunday, May 31, during the shared online worship of First, St. Mark, and Immanuel Lutheran Churches of Sioux City. It was preached on Pentecost, when many churches ...

VATICAN CITY — On the feast of Pentecost, Pope Francis focused his homily and Angelus address on the work of the Holy Spirit in guiding and giving life to the Church. The first Pentecost “does not ...

The conversion of Saul of Tarsus into the Apostle Paul began with the stoning of Stephen, whose face was radiant with the same vision that would soon knock Saul to the ground and blind him. His ...

At the beginning of her novel On Beauty, Zadie Smith quotes a line from a poem by her husband Nick Laird: “Time is how you spend your love.” This short sentence acts as a backdrop for a beautifully ...

Voices in Chinese, French, Spanish and other languages will be heard proclaiming the Gospel on Sunday morning at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Little Rock. The multi-language Scripture readings are a ...

With Pentecost, the Easter season ends and Ordinary time resumes. We might say that the mysteries we have been absorbing these past 50 days now become an "ordinary" part of our lives. Baptism means ...

Pentecost, which is celebrated on May 19, is a major religious observance for Roman Catholics, Lutherans, the Anglican Communion and other Christian faiths. This week’s clergy discuss the origin, ...

Once every year the Christian minister is confronted with the task of preaching a sermon on Pentecost. Barring happy exceptions, most ministers see themselves not so much confronted with a wonderful ...

Today, fifty days after Easter, we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost and we rejoice in God’s great gift of the Holy Spirit. We recall how God gives us his Holy Spirit (and divine peace) to carry out ...