You are invited to Pentecost Sunday on June 8 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
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Pentecost Sunday
Sunday, June 8, 2025, 10 am
Meaning of Pentecost
Pentecost Sunday falls on the 50th day after Easter. And this year, it falls on June 8th. The celebration of Pentecost is one of the most ancient celebration of the Church, celebrated early enough to be mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles (20:16) and Paul’s letter to the First Corinthians (16:8).
In Acts 2 recounts the story of the original Pentecost. Jews from all over were gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Jewish feast. On that Sunday, ten days after the Ascension of Christ, the apostles were gathered in the Upper Room, where they had seen Christ after His Resurrection:
Jesus had promised to his disciples that he would send the Holy Spirit after he departs from the world. And, on Pentecost, they were granted the gifts of the Spirit. On that day about 3,000 people were converted and baptized. That is why Pentecost is often call “the birthday of the church.”
So who is the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit is God – as revealed in the Third Person of the Trinity. This Holy Spirit was promised to us by Jesus to be our personal guide and friend: “The Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name…will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” (John 14:26)
Come Holy Spirit, come!
Special Music Imagine Marina Thomas
John Lennon
Tony & Lorrie Rubio, and their dog Eddie
Message 1 “A Spiritual Awakening” Lorrie Rubio
Isaiah 43:19
“Behold I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
Message 2 “The Road Less Traveled” Tony Rubio
Ephesians 4:22, 24
“You were taught to put away your former way of life, your old self,
and to clothe yourself with the new self, created in the likeness of God.”
Luke 18:27
But Jesus said, “The things that are impossible with people are possible with God.”
