In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

One God, amen.

Today is the great Feast of Pentecost.

And, uh, [clears throat] I just want to reflect on, um, one of the verses in the gospel reading this morning that comes to us in the 16th chapter of St. John, verses 14 and 15.

"He will glorify me, for he will take of what is mine and declare it to you.

All things that the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he will take of mine and declare it to you." If we think about the goal of everything that we have been celebrating, the annual cycle of the Church, from the, uh, incarnation and the Paschal cycle of the death and the resurrection of Christ, when we come to the Feast of Pentecost, we realize that all of these things were done for the sole purpose that God may fill the world and every human person with His Holy Spirit.