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Fr. Peter George Flynn continues his Easter series on Acts with chapter two. He opens with a question worth sitting with: if the Holy Spirit was already poured out on the apostles on Easter Sunday, why does Pentecost happen at all? The answer draws on Pope Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis and the image of the church as a body needing a soul.

The Pentecost narrative is read closely — wind, fire, tongues, Peter’s first sermon, three thousand baptised in a day — with rich commentary on Gideon’s fleece, the Feast of Weeks, St. Thomas Aquinas on chrism oil as the tongues of fire made permanent, and the gift of tongues understood as a missionary charism still active today. He closes with an invitation to read the rest of Acts and a gentle aside: don’t put too much stock in what demons say.

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