Yesterday, the Church celebrated among its biggest feasts of the year: Pentecost. Marking the fiftieth day after the resurrection of Christ, Pentecost is the birth of the Church empowered by the descent of the Holy Spirit.
After Jesus ascended into Heaven, Jesus' Mother Mary, the twelve apostles and many other disciples gathered together in Jerusalem to pray indoors. While they were praying, suddenly "there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind...Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire...and they were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim." (Act of the Apostles 2:1-11) Blessed by the Holy Spirit, the disciples were able to speak in different languages to testify the gospel of the risen Christ, especially Jesus' apostle Peter, who preached to the crowd about Jesus' death and His forgiveness of the world's sins. On that day, three thousand people were converted to Christianity.
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