Word: pentecostal
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...supreme example of God's refusal to accept the limits of the possible." Through love, the clown, like Jesus, can transform the ordinary into the sacred. At the Last Supper, ordinary bread and cheap table wine became eternal symbols of Jesus' love and sacrifice. At Pentecost, a group of illiterate fishermen were turned into inspired preachers who could speak to every man present in his own language. "Isn't that Christ's message," asks Shaffer, "that even ordinary people can become divine through his love...
Another case came up; this time the defendant entered from the jail entrance. The arresting officer accused the Black defendant of having some altercation with a store owner and "He had a prescription bottle strapped to his leg filled with pentecost or something like that." The prosecution asked him whether the defendant said anything upon his arrest, and the officer said, "Yeah, he said something about his mother had just died." A look at the defendant revealed a man wearing a grieved face, shaking his head...
...welcoming crowd there with a grin, "It was so hot in Rome that I decided I must come to Poland." It was at Gniezno, where Polish Christendom's first see was established in A.D. 1000, that John Paul made his sweeping opening to the East. The day was Pentecost, the feast marking the birth of the New Testament church, when the Apostles began to speak in a profusion of languages. This miracle of tongues was held as proof of the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the church, and is also interpreted as an early sign of Christianity's future...
...speedy selection had seemed to be a second Pentecost, a manifestation of the Holy Spirit, to those Cardinals who participated in the conclave; and his pontificate, brief as it was, had suffused the church with warmth and hope. "In a few days, he captured the world. He really did," said Joseph Califano, the only Roman Catholic in the U.S. Cabinet, after attending a memorial Mass. The Netherlands' Johannes Willebrands spoke for many Cardinals: "It's a disaster. I cannot put into words how happy we were on that August day when we had chosen John Paul. We had such high...
...original Pentecostal movement, which took its name from the 50th day after Easter, Pentecost Sunday, when the Holy Ghost descended to the twelve Apostles, was born in nearby Topeka...