Today we celebrate the realization of the Gospel commissioning to go out and make disciples of all nations: Pentecost. As I was in Mass today I was taken by the list of languages and civilizations that were present at the Apostles first speech following the Spirit's entrance in the Upper Room. The utter transcendence accomplished by God in the Descent of the Holy Spirit grabbed me and the phrase "The Spirit speaks the language of the heart" entered into my being. It was this language that inflamed the hearts of the two on the road to Emmaus and again the language that spoke to hundreds of peoples that fateful day when the Church was born. This language destroys barriers we put up and unites us with those unlike us, so long as our hearts and their hearts are open. Differences, however real they may be, are somehow and in someway disregarded when the Spirit speaks and polar opposites are united, like Mr. Penguin and Ms. Polar Bear.
May God continue to speak that language in our lives and may we, like the Apostles before us and all the Disciples of Christ since, allow the Word to emanate from our hearts through our being to all of humanity.
As today is Pentecost, Switchfoot's "On Fire" is very appropriate:
Blessings,
Isaac
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