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Today, Catholic Christians celebrate Pentecost, the birthday of the Catholic Church in particular and Christianity in general.
On this day, the Holy Spirit descended on the early disciples, bringing them many gifts to be able to spread the good news of Jesus Christ to all the world. We read about this event in the first history of our Church, the Acts of the Apostles:
“When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.
Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven staying in Jerusalem. At this sound, they gathered in a large crowd, but they were confused because each one heard them speaking in his own language. They were astounded, and in amazement they asked, ‘Are not all these people who are speaking Galileans? Then how does each of us hear them in his own native language? We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya near Cyrene, as well as travelers from Rome, both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs, yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty acts of God’” (Acts 2: 1-11).
In the photo above, we see the altar of the Church of Our Lady of Candelaria in the pueblo of Curarén decorated for the Feast of Pentecost in 2021. We see the altar is decorated in the color of the Holy Spirit, Red, and we see symbols of a dove and tongues of fire, both representing the Holy Spirit.
