Pentecost
The Church must not impose its language, but it has to enter men’s languages in order to announce the wonders of God

According to the fourth Gospel, on the very day of his resurrection, Jesus came among his disciples, greeted them giving them his peace and making himself known through the signs of his passion and death, which were still visible in his hands and side, “breathed on them and said: Receive the Holy Spirit.” In the Acts of the Apostles, after Jesus has ascended to the Father, while the disciples are gathered together in the same place, the Holy Spirit descends, in the form of a sound and of a strong rushing wind, as a fire showing itself in flaming tongues.

John’s and Luke’s narrations want to tell us above all that the same Spirit which was sent by the Father and which resurrected Jesus from the dead giving him a new life, was given by Jesus to his disciples: thus, Jesus and his community live of the same spirit, the holy Spirit. Pentecost is then the fullness of the Easter revelation, because the energies of the resurrected Jesus flow into his community which, thanks to the Holy Spirit, reaches faith in Jesus Christ, the son of God, and the ability to witness him and to announce him in history and to all men.