S&F-Happy Birthday to the Church

Today is Pentecost Sunday.  This is the day we celebrate the Holy Spirit coming down on the Disciples, giving them the power to start the Church.

In the 2000 years since then the Church has grown from a few hundred people to 1.4 billion.

In the early days of the Church in the Acts of the Apostles this is addressed.  One of the Jewish Leaders, a wise and respected member of the Sanhedrin, Gameliel, cautioned the Jewish leaders how they should treat the followers of Jesus.  He said that if Jesus's teachings were of a human origin, his followers will go away and it will destroy itself.  However, if this movement was from God, it cannot be stopped and the Jewish leaders might find themselves fighting against God.

Gameliel was truly wise.  The Catholic Church has grown.  Its membership has exploded all over the world.  If it was not God's Church that wouldn't have happened.  The Catholic Church is the true Church, started today with the Baptism in the Holy Spirit of 11 men, a Baptism we 1.4 million Catholics share.