Sermon for Pentecost Sunday Yr A May 31, 2020 St. Michael’s Episcopal Church The Reverend Canon Michael J. Horvath Gospel: John 20:19-23 Today is Pentecost Sunday. As we heard in the reading from the Acts of the Apostles, today celebrates God’s revelation of his life, his breath, his Holy Spirit. With the Holy Spirit the Apostles and disciples are filled with gifts of the Holy Spirit - the same gifts we are filled with upon baptism. Now, on Pentecost Sunday most preachers use the text of the Acts of the Apostles for their sermon. We all know this story and we expect that it will be preached on Pentecost Sunday. We know the disciples gathered in the upper room. We wait for the sound like the rush of violent wind to fill the house. In our mind’s eye we see the divided tongues, as of fire, appearing and resting on each disciple. We might be amused at the drunken chaos in which people are speaking, hearing, and understanding strange ...
"Loosed" - v. past tense To be set free; released. Ex. "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”