May 23 and 24

Pentecost Sunday

From Deacon Dick~

Pentecostal Psalm of No-Tongues By Ed Hays

          Intense Spirit … Giver of Gifts, who descended as flaming tongues on the disciples knotted together in prayer, come now aflame in me. Twist my tongue into a fiery knot, so tight as to be speechless. Give me no foreign mystical tongue to amaze and astonish all, but the tongue of a wonder-rooted tree, whose bark sings with silvery gray silence, or the mute tongue of an awestruck rock, whose poetry is forever petrified. O Spirit of Holy Construction, who livingly builds up the Church, gently clamp my teeth together lest my tongue tear Christ's Body to pieces. Guide me to listen, instead of to speak, so I can understand rather than stand over. By so silencing my talking ego, may I become speechless, a Spirit-tongued lover, who reverences and nourishes awesome life.