When Luke mentions the feast of Pentecost in our first reading, we can easily gloss over the implication that Pentecost is a Jewish feast. One of four springtime feasts on the Jewish liturgical calendar, Pentecost celebrated both the ingathering of the harvest as well as the giving of the law on Mt. Sinai. Comparing and contrasting the first Pentecost with the new Pentecost we discover that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit does indeed bring about a harvest, one that is new and rich in meaning.

Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

- The agricultural background of the feast of Pentecost

- The clear connections between the giving of the law on Mt. Sinai and the giving of the Holy Spirit to the Early Church

- Which Early Church Father coined the phrase “sober intoxication of the spirit”

- The significance of new wine in the Scriptures and why you can’t pour new wine into old wineskins

- How the new law of grace engenders spontaneity

You’ll notice that I talk a lot in the first few minutes about an online Bible study I did on the Book of Acts. To access that head here: https://www.youtube.com/@KatiePatrizio