pentecost
May 18-19: Pentecost
Preacher: The Rt. Rev. Alex Cameron, Bishop of Pittsburgh
Saturday Evening Bulletin
Note: the Saturday evening service will be led by Rev. Alex and will be a Bible Study with Holy Communion
The collect for pentecost
Almighty God, on this day, through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, you revealed the way of eternal life to every race and nation: Pour out this gift anew, that by the preaching of the Gospel your salvation may reach to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
The First lesson: acts 2: 1-11
The Coming of the Holy Spirit
2 When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. 6 And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language. 7 And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language? 9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, 11 both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.”
The second lesson: 1 corinthians 12: 4-13
4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. 7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8 For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 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. 11 All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
One Body with Many Members
12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
The psalm: 104: 24-35
24 O Lord, how manifold are your works;
in wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.
25 So is the great and wide sea also,
in which are things creeping innumerable,
creatures both small and great.
26 There go the ships, and there is that Leviathan,
whom you made to take its pleasure therein.
27 These all wait upon you,
that you may give them food in due season.
28 When you give it to them, they gather it,
and when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.
29 When you hide your face, they are troubled;
when you take away their breath, they die,
and are turned again to their dust.
30 When you let your breath go forth, they shall be made,
and you shall renew the face of the earth.
31 The glorious majesty of the Lord shall endure for ever;
the Lord shall rejoice in his works.
32 He looks at the earth and it trembles;
if he even touches the hills, they shall smoke.
33 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live;
I will praise my God while I have my being,
34 And so shall my words please him;
my joy shall be in the Lord.
35 As for sinners, they shall perish from the earth,
and the ungodly shall come to an end.
Praise the Lord, O my soul. Praise the Lord.
The gospel: john 14: 8-17
8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. 13 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
