{"id":31079,"date":"2026-05-20T13:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=31079"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:49:24","slug":"pentecost-sunday-a-promise-fulfilled-una-promesa-cumplida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2026\/05\/20\/pentecost-sunday-a-promise-fulfilled-una-promesa-cumplida\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentecost Sunday: A Promise Fulfilled \/ Una promesa cumplida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Last Supper, Jesus, while asserting to His Disciples His Oneness with the Father and that he was leaving them, made a solemn promise, \u201cI will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever,\u201d the Spirit to be with them so they would not be orphans (See Jn 14:15-18). The horror of the Passion, the darkness of death and the tomb, the brightness of the Resurrection and Ascension, the Novena of waiting in prayer, all passed. And the Spirit came!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acts of the Apostles details the event. The sound of the wind filled the whole house where the Disciples were and all around it. Inside, visible and invisible things happened. Flames hovered over all present. As Jesus promised, the Spirit would be in them and stay. Fear turned to boldness, and they confronted the crowds drawn there by the sound of the wind. The Apostles\u2019 Galilean accent was gone, and the crowd from surrounding countries and regions heard them in their own language and dialect. Something like three thousand of them sought to be baptized with water and the Spirit. Our Church was being born!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBrothers and sisters,\u201d wrote St. Paul, \u201cNo one can say, \u2018Jesus is Lord,\u2019 except by the Holy Spirit.\u201d Thus, only by the gift of the Spirit can we believe that Jesus was and is God among us. Paul also asserts, \u201cThere are different kinds of spiritual gifts, different forms of service, different workings, but the same Spirit, Lord, and God who produces all of them in everyone. To each the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit.\u201d Each of us, then, ought to admire the gifts in one another, nothing to be proud or jealous about, for our gifts are in us by the good pleasure of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are also reminded today of another precious gift of God to His Holy Church. The Father had sent Jesus to atone for the sinfulness of the human race and to reopen the gates of heaven. To help keep this in mind, the Church returns to St. John\u2019s Gospel on Resurrection evening. John singles this one gift out. He wrote: \u201cAs the Father has sent me, so I send you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, \u201cReceive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.” It is a gift like none other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Una promesa cumplida<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

En la \u00daltima Cena, Jes\u00fas, mientras afirmaba a sus disc\u00edpulos su Unicidad con el Padre y que los estaba dejando, hizo una promesa solemne: \u00abPedir\u00e9 al Padre, y \u00e9l os dar\u00e1 otro Abogado para que est\u00e9 contigo para siempre\u00bb, <\/em>el Esp\u00edritu, para que no queden hu\u00e9rfanos (v\u00e9ase Jn 14:15-18). <\/em>El horror de la Pasi\u00f3n, la oscuridad de la muerte y la tumba, el resplandor de la Resurrecci\u00f3n y la Ascensi\u00f3n, la Novena de la espera en la oraci\u00f3n, todo pas\u00f3. \u00a1Y lleg\u00f3 el Esp\u00edritu!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los Hechos de los Ap\u00f3stoles detallan el suceso. El sonido del viento llenaba toda la casa donde estaban los Disc\u00edpulos y a su alrededor. Dentro, ocurrieron cosas visibles e invisibles. Las llamas rodeaban a todos los presentes. Como Jes\u00fas prometi\u00f3, el Esp\u00edritu estar\u00eda en ellos y permanecer\u00eda. El miedo se convirti\u00f3 en audacia, y se enfrentaron a las multitudes atra\u00eddas por el sonido del viento. El acento galileo de los Ap\u00f3stoles hab\u00eda desaparecido y la multitud de los pa\u00edses (y regiones) cercanos los escuchaba en su propio idioma y dialecto. Unos tres mil de ellos buscaron ser bautizados con agua y el Esp\u00edritu. \u00a1Nuestra Iglesia estaba empezando a nacer!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Hermanos y hermanas”, <\/em>escribi\u00f3 San Pablo, “nadie puede decir: ‘Jes\u00fas es el Se\u00f1or’, salvo por el Esp\u00edritu Santo.” <\/em>As\u00ed, solo por el don del Esp\u00edritu podemos creer que Jes\u00fas fue y es Dios entre nosotros. Pablo tambi\u00e9n afirma: “Hay diferentes tipos de dones espirituales, diferentes formas de servicio, diferentes obras, pero el mismo Esp\u00edritu, Se\u00f1or y Dios que los produce todos en cada uno. A cada uno se le da la manifestaci\u00f3n del Esp\u00edritu para alg\u00fan beneficio.” Cada <\/em>uno de nosotros, entonces, debe admirar los dones que hay en los dem\u00e1s, nada de lo que sentirse orgulloso o celoso, porque nuestros dones est\u00e1n en nosotros por la buena voluntad de Dios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoy tambi\u00e9n recordamos otro precioso regalo de Dios a Su Santa Iglesia. El Padre hab\u00eda enviado a Jes\u00fas para expiar la pecaminosidad de la humanidad y reabrir las Puertas del cielo. Para tener esto en cuenta, la Iglesia vuelve al Evangelio de San Juan la noche de la Resurrecci\u00f3n. Juan destaca este regalo. Escribi\u00f3: “As\u00ed como el Padre me envi\u00f3, as\u00ed os env\u00edo a vosotros. Y cuando dijo esto, sopl\u00f3 sobre ellos y les dijo: “Recibid el esp\u00edritu Santo, los pecados que perdon\u00e1is ser\u00e1n perdonados, y los pecados que ser\u00e1n retenidos,\u00a0 ser\u00e1n retenidos.” <\/em>Es un regalo como ning\u00fan otro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB At the Last Supper, Jesus, while asserting to His Disciples His Oneness with the Father and that he was leaving them, made a solemn promise, \u201cI will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever,\u201d the Spirit to be with them so they would not be orphans (See Jn 14:15-18). The horror of … Continuar leyendo Pentecost Sunday: A Promise Fulfilled \/ Una promesa cumplida<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":12531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[777629889,2343517,20310044],"tags":[782003455],"class_list":["post-31079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fr-ed-liptak","category-gospel-reflection","category-province-news","tag-fr-ed-liptak"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-85h","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/intouch-scripture-graphic-feature.jpg?fit=1600%2C510&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10336596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31082,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31079\/revisions\/31082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}