THE PENTECOST SUNDAY 23 MAY 2021 FIRST READING "All were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak" A Reading from the book of Acts of the Apostles (2, 1-11)

THE PENTECOST SUNDAY 23 MAY 2021 

FIRST READING 

"All were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak" 

A Reading from the book of Acts of the Apostles (2, 1-11) 

When the day of Pentecost arrived, at the end of the fifty days after Easter, they were all gathered together. Suddenly a noise arose from the sky like a violent gust of wind: the house where they were sitting was completely filled with it. Then there appeared to them tongues which might have been called fire, which were divided, and one landed on each of them. All were filled with the Holy Spirit: they began to speak in other languages, and each spoke according to the gift of the Spirit.

Now there were religious Jews residing in Jerusalem from all the nations under heaven. When they heard the resounding voice, they gathered in crowds. They were in great confusion because each of them could hear those who spoke in their own dialect. In amazement and wonder, they would say: "Are not these speaking people all Galileans?" How is it that each of us hears them in our own dialect, our mother tongue? Parthians, Medes and Elamites, inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, the province of Pontus and that of Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the regions of Libya close to Cyrene, passing Romans, Jews by birth and converts, Cretans and Arabs, we all hear them speaking in our tongues of the wonders of God. " 

The Word of the Lord.,

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