Pentecost Sunday
No Church without Pentecost,
no Pentecost without Mary, Pope says
Vatican City, May 23, 2010 (EWTN News/CNA)
He taught that there is no Church without Pentecost and no Pentecost without Mary.
“So,” he observed, “there is no Church without Pentecost.”
And, he added, “there is no Pentecost without the Virgin Mary.”
She was present in the Upper Room when with the disciples when the Holy Spirit descended and, as she is “in all places and times,” the Pope explained, including his recent trip to Fatima as an example.
“What did that immense multitude live, in fact, in the esplanade of the Sanctuary, where all of us were a single heart and soul, if it wasn’t a renewal of Pentecost?
“Among us was Mary, the Mother of God,” Pope Benedict said of the Mass he celebrated in Fatima with 500,000 people in attendance on May 13.
He said that wherever Christians join in prayer with Mary, the Lord offers them his Spirit.
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