For Your Weekend: Open Wide the Doors

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 20:19–23

On this feast of Pentecost, we celebrate the birthday of our Church—a moment of fire and boldness, where fear gave way to proclamation, and locked doors burst open with the Spirit’s rush of movement. Yet before tongues of fire danced above the apostles' heads, a quieter Pentecost had already occurred.

In that quiet moment in the upper room, from the breath of Christ, the living Church was born. 

Although Mary, the mother of Jesus, may not be me...