Pentecost 2024 is on Sunday May 19. On this day the Church celebrates the day that the Holy Spirit - the Third Person of The Holy Trinity - descended on the Apostles and several disciples who were present. This year, with heartfelt prayers, let us ask - not just for one gift or one fruit, but for the very source and giver of all of them - the Holy Spirit himself!
GIFTS TO BUILD UP OUR OWN SANCTIFICATION
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23)
GIFTS TO BUILD UP THE CHURCH
"Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are inspired by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
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