Early on the first day of the week, the women who had followed Jesus from Galilee all the way to Jerusalem, went to the tomb, “but they did not find the body of the Lord”. And “while they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel” and said to them: “why do you seek the living among the dead?
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. /