The Pentecost is May 20. Join us in praying as the Pentecost approaches, that the Holy Spirit would flood over our churches, towns, region, country, and world.
The Church needs the Holy Spirit
St. Paul says in 2 Corinthians 3:17 that "The Lord is a Spirit..." That is why when the Holy Spirit is given to us, we are able to love God so freely as to sacrifice voluntarily the selfish love of the world: "...Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty".
Our faith in the Holy Spirit is our belief that God, who is Love, can share with us something of His own divine love.
We speak of the gifts of the Holy Spirit as the supernatural instincts or impulses that urge us to put the virtues of faith, hope, and charity into practice. We have the fruits of the Holy Spirit that give us a deep supernatural satisfaction in doing the will of God.
We believe that the Church Is One, Holy and Apostolic. These characteristics, inseparably linked with each other, indicate essential features of the Church and her mission. The Church does not possess them of herself; it is Christ who through the Holy Spirit makes His Church one, holy and apostolic, and it is He who calls her to realise each of these qualities.
The rising tide of prayer precedes the flood of God’s Spirit
- The apostles devoted themselves to prayer as they awaited the outpouring at Pentecost (Acts 1:14).
- Their friends gathered for prayer when Peter and John were released from custody "and when they had prayed the place was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit" (Acts 4:31).
- The blinded Paul fasted and prayed as he awaited the filling of the Holy Spirit (Acts 9:11, 17, 19).
- Cornelius and Peter were both praying when God spoke to them (Acts 10:9,30).
- The church was earnestly praying when God moved to release Peter from prison (Acts 12:5).
- The teachers of Antioch were worshipping and fasting when the Spirit set apart Paul and Barnabas for the mission that changed the world (Acts 13:2).
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