The Outpouring of the Spirit.
SCRIPTURE: Acts 1:1-4- And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all
filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak, as the Spirit gave them utterance.\’
In the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the work of Christ culminates. The adorable mystery of
the Incarnation in Bethlehem, the great Redemption accomplished on Calvary, the revelation
of Christ as the Son of God in the power of the Eternal Life by the Resurrection, His entrance
into glory in the Ascension–these are all preliminary stages; their goal and their crown were
the coming down of the Holy Spirit. As Pentecost is the last, it is the greatest of the Christian
feasts; in it, the others find their realization and their fulfillment. It is because the Church has
hardly acknowledged this and has not seen that the glory of Pentecost is the highest glory of
the Father and the Son, that the Holy Spirit has not yet been able to reveal and glorify the Son
in her as He fain would. Let us see if we can realize what Pentecost means.