When I was in middle school and heard the account of the Pentecost and the tongues of fire, I remember asking why the apostles didn’t burn up. If tongues of fire fell upon them, why is it that ...

O for a Thousand Tongues of Fire Hannah Miller King The Spirit’s descent at Pentecost is a model for diverse and distributed leadership. Christianity Today May 24, 2023 ...

Pentecost Sunday, which is celebrated 50 days after Easter Sunday, remembers the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles, said Fr. Louis Cona of Rockville Center, New York.

How will we know if Pentecost has come to us? The readings for today's solemnity describe the followers of Jesus as receiving the power to forgive one another and to reconcile others to God ...

Speech was not God’s only miracle at Pentecost. The Spirit also gave the gift of understanding, overcoming division and contempt. Tongues of fire, everywhere. In this loud and furious age, a ...

A former enclosed Carmelite nun recalls a powerful if quirky Pentecost custom from her years in the cloister It should not come as a surprise that a decade or more in the cloister leaves the monk ...

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 ...

Typically, priests will wear red vestments on Pentecost, symbolic of the burning fire of God’s love and the tongues of fire that descended on the apostles.

And tongues that looked like fire appeared to them, distributing themselves, and a tongue rested on each one of them.

The eighth circle inverts the sacred imagery of tongues of fire on the heads of the disciples of the Christ on Pentecost Sunday, designating tongues of fire on the soles of the infamous politico ...

Typically, priests will wear red vestments on Pentecost, symbolic of the burning fire of God’s love and the tongues of fire that descended on the apostles.