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SERMON –For St. Mary’s Anglican​​​        ​​May 28, 2023

TEXTS:  Acts 2: 1-21

Opening prayer:  Let the words of my mouth…

The Day of Pentecost

About two weeks ago one of the boys in my granddaughter’s kindergarten class lost his grandmother. Let’s call him Bobby. Bobby had been babysat by his grandmother since he was a baby and was still going there every school day up until the week before his grandma died. For about a week Bobby stayed home and wanted to stay home even a few more days but his mother said to him: “you need to go back to school. Your kindergarten classmates will welcome you back and they will help you to feel okay about being in school again.”

So Bobby took his mother’s hand and went back to school. When the got to the school they were still holding hands. Together they walked down to the kindergarten room. They were a little late because of Bobby’s reluctance but then they were at the door.  And when they came in, 3 of his friends –I’ll call them Eva, Vassey and Sally – came right over and gave him a hug!

It was a beautiful moment and a wonderful expression of understanding and love.

It was a moment in history that will never be repeated in quite the same way by these little kindergarten students.  But its meaning will carry forward and hopefully, they will all be involved in situations where love and understanding are given and received.

Today’s lesson from Acts, I suggest is also a “moment in history” that will not be repeated in exactly the same way but will introduce a conviction and a presence that has extended through the centuries and is with us today.

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