My church does a neat thing on Pentecost. The priest starts reading the Gospel, then continues reading but at about every two lines another voice comes in and restarts the Gospel in a different language.
At it’s peak there are more than a dozen voices in more than a dozen languages speaking everything from French to Swahili, Arabic to Japanese.
Curtis Mathews Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Better safe than sorry!
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member almost 5 years ago
I cannot decide if that’s demonstrating faith or not.
DanFlak almost 5 years ago
My church does a neat thing on Pentecost. The priest starts reading the Gospel, then continues reading but at about every two lines another voice comes in and restarts the Gospel in a different language.
At it’s peak there are more than a dozen voices in more than a dozen languages speaking everything from French to Swahili, Arabic to Japanese.
jimmjonzz Premium Member almost 5 years ago
T. S. Eliot’s beautiful lines about the dual nature of Pentecostal fire as both destroying and cleansing, from Four Quartets part 4 Little Gidding.
The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error.
The only hope, or else despair
—-Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre—
—-To be redeemed from fire by fire.
Who then devised the torment? Love.
Love is the unfamiliar Name
Behind the hands that wove
The intolerable shirt of flame
Which human power cannot remove.
—-We only live, only suspire
Consumed by either fire or fire.FreyjaRN Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Some people fear renewal, preferring the old conservative way things are.