{"id":32615,"date":"2026-05-24T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=32615"},"modified":"2026-05-24T11:37:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:37:01","slug":"receiving-and-being-sealed-by-the-holy-spirit-pentecost-sunday-a-may-24-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/receiving-and-being-sealed-by-the-holy-spirit-pentecost-sunday-a-may-24-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Receiving and Being Sealed by the Holy Spirit, Pentecost Sunday (A), May 24, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Msgr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nConvent of the Missionaries of Charity, Bronx, NY<br \/>\nPentecost Sunday 2026<br \/>\nMay 24, 2026<br \/>\nActs 2:1-11, Ps 104, 1 Cor 12:3-7.12-13, Jn 20:19-23<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to a recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-32615-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/5.24.26_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/5.24.26_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/5.24.26_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The following text guided the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today we celebrate with gratitude the gift of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Church and in your life and mine. With the words of the Sequence we just sang, we ask him to come anew from heaven as a blessed light for our hearts, guest of our soul, providential father, giver of charisms, solace and consoler, rest and refreshment. We ask him to help us to do good, to purify, water, heal, soften, correct and ignite, to give us anew his seven gifts, help us grow in virtue, to lead us to salvation and eternal joy. We beg him to fill us with the gifts of knowledge, understanding, wisdom, prudence, reverence, awe and courage, as well as with the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self-mastery. We ask him to fill our hearts, enkindle the fire of his love, recreate us and renew the whole world.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus\u2019 whole life, which revealed God the Father\u2019s saving love and made it efficacious, was to prepare the faithful for the coming of the Holy Spirit who would help make us participants in Jesus\u2019 new and eternal Passover. During the Last Supper, Jesus spoke repeatedly about the Holy Spirit, how he would be another Advocate, convict us and the world of sin, justice and condemnation, remind us of everything Jesus had taught and lead us to all truth, and how, astonishingly, it was better for Jesus to go so that the Holy Spirit would come to us. The first taste of that gift was on Easter Sunday night, as we see in today\u2019s Gospel, when Jesus breathed on the apostles and said, \u201cReceive the Holy Spirit.\u201d Later, at his Ascension, Jesus told them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the \u201cpromise of the Father\u201d about which they had heard him speak, for \u201cin a few days,\u201d he continued, \u201cyou will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.\u201d They were going to be fully immersed in the Holy Spirit. The apostles and the other followers of Jesus returned to the Upper Room and very wisely huddled around Mary to learn from the one who was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit at Jesus\u2019 virginal conception and who continually lived as a Spouse of the Holy Spirit how to get ready to receive the \u201cpromise of the Father\u201d and respond to his action. And after ten days of prayer, the Holy Spirit came in the form of strong driving wind and as tongues of fire that rested upon each of them. They received the Holy Spirit and, as St. Paul wrote later to the Ephesians, were \u201csealed with the promised Holy Spirit,\u201d which he said was \u201cthe first installment of our inheritance toward redemption as God\u2019s possession\u201d (Eph 1:13-14; 4:30).<\/li>\n<li>By the Sacrament of Confirmation, we have all been baptized in, we have all been sealed with, the Holy Spirit. Yesterday I celebrated the 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of my Confirmation, when now Archbishop Alfred Hughes, former auxiliary bishop of Boston and emeritus Archbishop of New Orleans, made the sign of the Cross on my forehead with sacred chrism and said, \u201cBe sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit.\u201d He used the name I had chosen \u2014\u00a0Deodatus, \u201cgiven to God\u201d \u2014\u00a0and prepared me for my Christian vocation and mission. Yesterday, as I was marking that awesome day in preparation for Pentecost, I meditated on the Rite of Confirmation, which actualizes what happened to the Church in the Upper Room. It teaches us about how we\u2019re called to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.<\/li>\n<li>The bishop, or with delegation the priest, first asks us all to pray, \u201cDearly beloved, let us pray to God the almighty Father, for these, his adopted sons and daughters, already born again to eternal life in Baptism, that he will graciously pour out the Holy Spirit upon them to confirm them with his abundant gifts, and through his anointing conform them more fully to Christ, the Son of God.\u201d The purpose of the Sacrament of Confirmation, of the Holy Spirit\u2019s work in us, is to make us more and more like Jesus. Then the bishop extends his hands and continues the prayer, joined silently by all the priests present: \u201cAlmighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who brought these servants to new birth by water and the Holy Spirit, freeing them from sin: send upon them, O Lord, the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete; give them the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and fortitude, the spirit of knowledge and piety; fill them with the spirit of fear of the Lord. Through Christ our Lord.\u201d The Holy Spirit perfects the new birth in baptism and seeks to make us like Christ wise and understanding, prudent and knowledgeable, courageous, reverent and full of awe. Then the bishop seals us with that gift of the Third Person of the Holy Trinity, with all his gifts, to conform us to Christ.<\/li>\n<li>What\u2019s the impact of receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit? Sacred Scripture mentions many.\n<ul>\n<li>First, he seeks to make us his Temple, to dwell in us and be in us (1 Cor 6:19-20; Jn 14:17).<\/li>\n<li>Second, he helps us to pray. Paul says that the Holy Spirit comes \u201cto the aid of our weakness for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit intercedes for us\u201d (Rom 8:26). He continues that the Holy Spirit intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words, helping us to cry out \u201cAbba, Father!\u201d and pray as beloved sons and daughters (Rom 8:15).<\/li>\n<li>Third, he helps us to live for God. St. Paul tells us in his letters to the Galatians and Romans that there are two basic ways to live, to live according to the Spirit or to live according to the flesh (Gal 5; Rom 8). To live by the Spirit means that we\u2019re constantly seeking what God the Holy Spirit seeks. To live by the flesh means to place our heart, our treasure, in the things of this world, in money and material possessions, in carnal pleasures, in fame, power, influence, in superficialities. The Holy Spirit wants to renew us by helping us to put to death in us whatever lives by the flesh so that we may totally live by his inspiration, his in-breathing, as Mary and the apostles after Pentecost did, and as the saints have across the centuries.<\/li>\n<li>Fourth, as St. Paul indicates in today\u2019s second reading, he gives each of us a \u201cmanifestation of the Spirit\u201d for the good of the Church and the world. We have all received certain charisms, \u201cdifferent forms of service\u201d and \u201cdifferent workings\u201d necessary to make Christ\u2019s Body the Church strong. The Holy Spirit wants to help us to recognize what our gifts are and, just as importantly, to use them to build up the Church both locally and universally.<\/li>\n<li>But what I want to focus on most is the missionary impact of the Holy Spirit\u2019s gift. He is given to us to help us to complete Jesus\u2019 mission. Jesus promised, \u201cWhen the Holy Spirit comes upon you, \u2026 you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth\u201d (Acts 1:8). Later, when the apostles gave that testimony, publicly affirming under trial, \u201cWe are witnesses of these things, as is the holy Spirit that God has given to those who obey him\u201d (Acts 5:32). Immediately before Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit on the apostles on Easter night, he said, \u201cJust as the Father sent me, so I send you.\u201d The Holy Spirit was coming upon them for mission. That is similarly underlined in St. Luke\u2019s account of Pentecost. The Holy Spirit came under two forms. The first was a strong, driving wind, capable of pushing them into deep water, across the seas, to far away lands. The second was as tongues of fire, so that they might proclaim the Gospel with ardent love. We then see how the Holy Spirit helped simple, thickly-accented men like Peter and the apostles speak powerfully and effectively in front of vast crowds. Everything the Holy Spirit gives is meant ultimately to transform us for mission. He leads us to truth and reminds us of everything Jesus taught so that we might help others come to accept Jesus as the Truth and follow him. He convicts us of sin, righteousness and condemnation so that we might help others repent and believe. He gives us his seven-fold gifts and our particular manifestations of the Spirit so that we might be competent ambassadors. He helps us to pray so that we can lead the world to pray. He makes us his temple and fills us with his fruit so that, even before we open our mouth, we are able to proclaim that God is real, that he\u2019s with us, that he\u2019s transforming us, just as he seeks to bless them. He seals us so that we may be marked permanently by his presence and his work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pentecost is, therefore, not just the celebration of the Church\u2019s birth but the annual day on which we remember that the Church does not have a mission but is a mission. Pentecost involves not just receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit, but, impelled by the Spirit, with tongues of fire, it means leaving the Upper Room, going forth into the crowds, impelled by a strong driving wind, to share the treasure of our faith. Every Pentecost, transformed by the Holy Spirit, we go out anew, as missionaries, as witnesses, together with the Holy Spirit, who, conforming us to Christ, seeks to renew and transform each person in the world.<\/li>\n<li>That work begins at Mass. Pope Benedict once said, \u201cThe Eucharist is a \u2018perpetual Pentecost\u2019 since every time we celebrate Mass we receive the Holy Spirit who unites us more deeply with Christ and transforms us into Him.\u201d It\u2019s during Mass that in the epiclesis we call down the Holy Spirit upon the priest and the altar totally to change bread and wine into Jesus\u2019 body and blood, and then, after the consecration, we call him down anew to change men and women into Christ\u2019s mystical body. To receive the Holy Spirit and be sealed by him means to allow him to do this work, to cooperate with the miraculous metamorphosis the Spirit wants to do in us as we receive Jesus. The Holy Spirit wants to seal us with this gift and then, at the end of the Mass, to send us forth on a permanent mission proclaiming the Gospel of the Lord. This is the completion of the Easter Season and the fulfillment of all God\u2019s work. May we respond like Mary and the Apostles did on the day the Church was born.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wr-block b-verse bg-white padding-bottom-m\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"p-wrap col-lg-10 offset-lg-1 col-xl-8 offset-xl-2 col-xxl-6 offset-xxl-3 \">\n<div class=\"innerblock\">\n<div class=\"content-header\">\n<h3 class=\"name\">Reading I<\/h3>\n<div class=\"address\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/acts\/2?1\">Acts 2:1-11<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-body\">\n<p>When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled,<br \/>\nthey were all in one place together.<br \/>\nAnd suddenly there came from the sky<br \/>\na noise like a strong driving wind,<br \/>\nand it filled the entire house in which they were.<br \/>\nThen there appeared to them tongues as of fire,<br \/>\nwhich parted and came to rest on each one of them.<br \/>\nAnd they were all filled with the Holy Spirit<br \/>\nand began to speak in different tongues,<br \/>\nas the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.<\/p>\n<p>Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven staying in Jerusalem.<br \/>\nAt this sound, they gathered in a large crowd,<br \/>\nbut they were confused<br \/>\nbecause each one heard them speaking in his own language.<br \/>\nThey were astounded, and in amazement they asked,<br \/>\n\u201cAre not all these people who are speaking Galileans?<br \/>\nThen how does each of us hear them in his native language?<br \/>\nWe are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites,<br \/>\ninhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia,<br \/>\nPontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia,<br \/>\nEgypt and the districts of Libya near Cyrene,<br \/>\nas well as travelers from Rome,<br \/>\nboth Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs,<br \/>\nyet we hear them speaking in our own tongues<br \/>\nof the mighty acts of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wr-block b-verse bg-white padding-bottom-m\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"p-wrap col-lg-10 offset-lg-1 col-xl-8 offset-xl-2 col-xxl-6 offset-xxl-3 \">\n<div class=\"innerblock\">\n<div class=\"content-header\">\n<h3 class=\"name\">Responsorial Psalm<\/h3>\n<div class=\"address\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/104?1\">104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-body\">\n<p>R. (cf. 30) <strong>Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.<\/strong><br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR. <strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nBless the LORD, O my soul!<br \/>\nO LORD, my God, you are great indeed!<br \/>\nHow manifold are your works, O LORD!<br \/>\nthe earth is full of your creatures.<br \/>\nR. <strong>Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.<\/strong><br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR. <strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nMay the glory of the LORD endure forever;<br \/>\nmay the LORD be glad in his works!<br \/>\nPleasing to him be my theme;<br \/>\nI will be glad in the LORD.<br \/>\nR. <strong>Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.<\/strong><br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR. <strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you take away their breath, they perish<br \/>\nand return to their dust.<br \/>\nWhen you send forth your spirit, they are created,<br \/>\nand you renew the face of the earth.<br \/>\nR. <strong>Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.<\/strong><br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR. <strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wr-block b-verse bg-white padding-bottom-m\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"p-wrap col-lg-10 offset-lg-1 col-xl-8 offset-xl-2 col-xxl-6 offset-xxl-3 \">\n<div class=\"innerblock\">\n<div class=\"content-header\">\n<h3 class=\"name\">Reading II<\/h3>\n<div class=\"address\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/1corinthians\/12?3\">1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-body\">\n<p>Brothers and sisters:<br \/>\nNo one can say, \u201cJesus is Lord,\u201d except by the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit;<br \/>\nthere are different forms of service but the same Lord;<br \/>\nthere are different workings but the same God<br \/>\nwho produces all of them in everyone.<br \/>\nTo each individual the manifestation of the Spirit<br \/>\nis given for some benefit.<\/p>\n<p>As a body is one though it has many parts,<br \/>\nand all the parts of the body, though many, are one body,<br \/>\nso also Christ.<br \/>\nFor in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body,<br \/>\nwhether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons,<br \/>\nand we were all given to drink of one Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wr-block b-verse bg-white padding-bottom-m\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"p-wrap col-lg-10 offset-lg-1 col-xl-8 offset-xl-2 col-xxl-6 offset-xxl-3 \">\n<div class=\"innerblock\">\n<div class=\"content-header\">\n<h3 class=\"name\">Sequence<\/h3>\n<div class=\"address\">Veni, Sancte Spiritus<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-body\">\n<p>Come, Holy Spirit, come!<br \/>\nAnd from your celestial home<br \/>\nShed a ray of light divine!<br \/>\nCome, Father of the poor!<br \/>\nCome, source of all our store!<br \/>\nCome, within our bosoms shine.<br \/>\nYou, of comforters the best;<br \/>\nYou, the soul\u2019s most welcome guest;<br \/>\nSweet refreshment here below;<br \/>\nIn our labor, rest most sweet;<br \/>\nGrateful coolness in the heat;<br \/>\nSolace in the midst of woe.<br \/>\nO most blessed Light divine,<br \/>\nShine within these hearts of yours,<br \/>\nAnd our inmost being fill!<br \/>\nWhere you are not, we have naught,<br \/>\nNothing good in deed or thought,<br \/>\nNothing free from taint of ill.<br \/>\nHeal our wounds, our strength renew;<br \/>\nOn our dryness pour your dew;<br \/>\nWash the stains of guilt away:<br \/>\nBend the stubborn heart and will;<br \/>\nMelt the frozen, warm the chill;<br \/>\nGuide the steps that go astray.<br \/>\nOn the faithful, who adore<br \/>\nAnd confess you, evermore<br \/>\nIn your sevenfold gift descend;<br \/>\nGive them virtue\u2019s sure reward;<br \/>\nGive them your salvation, Lord;<br \/>\nGive them joys that never end. Amen.<br \/>\nAlleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wr-block b-verse bg-white padding-bottom-m\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"p-wrap col-lg-10 offset-lg-1 col-xl-8 offset-xl-2 col-xxl-6 offset-xxl-3 \">\n<div class=\"innerblock\">\n<div class=\"content-header\">\n<h3 class=\"name\">Alleluia<\/h3>\n<div class=\"address\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-body\">\n<p>R. <strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nCome, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful<br \/>\nand kindle in them the fire of your love.<br \/>\nR.<strong> Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wr-block b-verse bg-white padding-bottom-m\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"p-wrap col-lg-10 offset-lg-1 col-xl-8 offset-xl-2 col-xxl-6 offset-xxl-3 \">\n<div class=\"innerblock\">\n<div class=\"content-header\">\n<h3 class=\"name\">Gospel<\/h3>\n<div class=\"address\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/20?19\">Jn 20:19-23<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-body\">\n<p>On the evening of that first day of the week,<br \/>\nwhen the doors were locked, where the disciples were,<br \/>\nfor fear of the Jews,<br \/>\nJesus came and stood in their midst<br \/>\nand said to them, \u201cPeace be with you.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.<br \/>\nThe disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.<br \/>\nJesus said to them again, \u201cPeace be with you.<br \/>\nAs the Father has sent me, so I send you.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cReceive the Holy Spirit.<br \/>\nWhose sins you forgive are forgiven them,<br \/>\nand whose sins you retain are retained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SGPentecost1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26931\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SGPentecost1.jpg?resize=1%2C1&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Unknown.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32617\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Unknown.jpeg?resize=141%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Unknown.jpeg?resize=141%2C300&ssl=1 141w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Unknown.jpeg?w=154&ssl=1 154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 141px) 100vw, 141px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1599\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-32615-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/5.24.26_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/5.24.26_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/5.24.26_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/5.24.26_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=32615-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/5.24.26_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"5.24.26_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Msgr. 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