the Ascension

Homily for Pentecost, Year C: Sunday 8 June 2025

Acts 2:1-11   Romans 8:8-17   John 14:15-16,23-26

The Polish poet Czesław Miłosz composed his personal version of the Veni Creator:


"Come, Holy Spirit, / Bending or not bending the grasses, / Appearing or not above our heads in a tongue of flame, / At hay harvest or when they plough in the orchards or when snow / Covers crippled firs in the Sierra Nevada. /