Pentecost Sunday: A 2026

Pentecost Sunday: A 2026

From Pastoral Reflections by Msgr. Don Fischer

May 24, 2026

About this episode

Msgr. Don Fischer reflects on the significance of Pentecost Sunday and the themes of sin and forgiveness in the context of Catholic liturgy.

Pastoral Reflections 5-24-26 - Pentecost Sunday Msgr. Don Fischer Download Original Airdate: May 28, 2023 Acts 2:1-11 | 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13 | John 20:19-23   Almighty, everliving God, who willed the Pascal mystery to be encompassed as a sign in 50 days, granted from out of the scattered nations the confusion of many tongues may be gathered by heavenly grace into one great confession of your name.  Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever, amen.   As a Catholic, I was obviously very much formed by the liturgy, by mass on Sunday, and as a priest, I’ve celebrated mass after mass after mass every day.  I’ll be saying this thing that is a celebration of what has happened to the human race because of this figure Jesus, and one of the things that I love about the liturgy in the renewal is that we brought back at the very beginning of the liturgy a more public form of the request from the congregation to God to forgive us of our sins.  It’s interesting.  We start every liturgy with simply a request.  “Please Father, forgive…

People in this episode

Host: Msgr. Don Fischer

Topics covered

  • Pentecost
  • Catholic liturgy
  • sin
  • forgiveness
  • Christianity
  • spirituality

Keywords

  • Pentecost
  • liturgy
  • forgiveness
  • sin
  • Christianity
  • spirituality
  • Catholic mass

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Acts 2:1-11, 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13, John 20:19-23

Places: Pascal

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