40 - The Holy Spirit on the Pentecost Day

Introduction

Jesus is always with us and takes care of us. The Holy Spirit teaches us how to be good and to love each other, help, share, and to do all the good things that God wants us to do. He teaches us to know God better. We all received the Holy Spirit as babies when we were baptized in the church. Today we celebrate the feast of Pentecost; this is the first time that the disciples got the Holy Spirit. We will learn about what happened on that special day. 

Lesson Outline

After Jesus arose from death, He spent a lot of time with His friends (the disciples and the apostles) teaching them everything about God and heaven. He told them that He will go up to heaven to His Father, and He will send to them a very special power, who is the Holy Spirit. He also told them that the Holy Spirit will help them to teach other people about God. One day, while Jesus’ friends were in a big room praying, they heard a sound from heaven like a strong wind that came and filled the whole room. They looked at each other and each one of them had a flame on the top of his head. This was a very special flame that did not burn them. This flame was the Holy Spirit whom Jesus promised He would send to help them. Jesus’ friends were filled with a special power from God and they started speaking in different languages and doing miracles like Jesus. Each one of the apostles went to a different place and taught people about Jesus, how much He loves them, how He wants them to be good, and also that they should love each other. St. Mark, the apostle, went to Egypt. Has anyone ever visited Egypt? He taught our great...great… great grandparents about Jesus and this is how we know about Jesus. 

Memory Verse 

“And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit” Acts 2:4