Sermon: Day of Pentecost

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Deacon Brother Andrew Jones on the Feast of Pentecost, June 8, 2025.

      Sermon - Pentecost 2025 - The Rev. Deacon Br. Andrew Jones

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:25-35,37; Romans 8:14-17; John 14:8-27.

The picture shown above is a detail of a painting by Titian (ca. 1488-1576), “The Descent of the Holy Spirit,” which hangs above an altar in the basilica Santa Maria della Salute in Venice, Italy.


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