 St Alban’s Episcopal Church Bolivar, Missouri Thursday, June 2, 2022 Pentecost in the Wings A couple of readingsto think about  Pentecost is this Sunday.It’s a big deal at St Alban’s, the End, the Culmination of Eastertide. You are invited to wear RED (or orange or yelow – fire colors). The banners will have changed to red also, and the vestments and altar hangings are red. Even the after-Church treats will be red! But here are some readings to begin to think about – What do we want? What are we are celebrating and anticipating? And what is prophesy anyway? Numbers 11:24-30 Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord; and he gathered seventy elders of the people, and placed them all around the tent. Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again. Two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, ad the spirit rested on them; they were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp. And a young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” And Joshua, son of Nun, the assistant of Moses, one of his chosen men, said, “My lord Moses, stop them!” But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all of the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit on them!” And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp. Joel 2:28-29 The Lord said, ‘I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. Even on the male and female slaves, in those days, I will pour out my spirit.’ John 7:37-39 On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, ‘Out of the believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.’ “Now he said this about the Spirit, which believers in him were to receive.  Hail this joyful day’s return, hail the Pentecostal morn, morn when our ascended Lord on his Church his Spirit poured. Alleluia! Hymn 224  |
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