COLLECT

 

                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When the day of Pentecost had come, the disciples were all
together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd gathered

Psalm 104:25-37

 FIRST READING:    Acts 2:1-11

and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. Amazed and astonished, they asked, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs-- in our own languages we hear them speaking about God's deeds of power."

25 O Lord, how manifold are your works! * in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

 

26    Yonder is the great and wide sea

       with its living things too many to number, * creatures both small and great.

 

27 There move the ships,

       and there is that Leviathan, *

       which you have made for the sport of it.

28    All of them look to you *

       to give them their food in due season.

 

29    You give it to them; they gather it; * you open your hand, and they are filled with good things.

 

30 You hide your face, and they are terrified; * you take away their breath, and they die and return to their dust.

 

 

Almighty God, who on this day didst open the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised gift of thy Holy Spirit: Shed abroad this gift throughout the world by the preaching of the Gospel, that it may reach to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.