Vatican City, May 23, 2010 / 08:10 am
Pentecost reminds us as Christians of the universality and unity of the Church, Pope Benedict said during Mass on Sunday. The Church, he stated, must always be Catholic and universal, “the home of all in which each person can find himself again.”
The Holy Father presided over Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, concelebrating with 30 cardinals and 50 bishops and archbishops, to the accompaniment of Sistine Chapel Choir.
Pentecost, said Pope Benedict during his homily, invites us as a Church to make the invocation “Come Holy Spirit!” with particular intensity, calling for “the gift that Jesus asked and continually asks of the Father for his friends.”
It is “the first and principal gift that he obtained for us with his Resurrection and Ascension to Heaven,” the Pope explained.