An Update Of The Pentecost Narrative

Acts 2:1-12

“When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

“Now there were dwelling across the Internet Catholics, devout men from every nation under heaven. And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in their own language. And they were amazed and wondered, saying, ‘Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it it that we hear, each of us in his own native language? Patheosi and Aleteians and Cruxians, and residents of EWTN, Ignitum Today and Commonweal, Big Pulpit and America, Pewsitter and Spirit Daily, Catholic Answers and the parts of ChurchMilitantTV belonging to the Vortex, and visitors from National Catholic Register, both online readers and home-delivery subscribers, Remnantoids and Grunerites, we hear them telling in our tongues the mighty works of God.’ And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, ‘What does this mean?'”

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