Chapter 2, in of the Acts of the Apostles, quoted on the feast of Pentecost saying when the days of Pentecost came around, meaning that the Jewish community celebrated Pentecost before that.

If we look at the liturgy, the liturgy of the Vigil Mass focuses on Chapter 19 of Exodus which is the covenant that God made with his people. There is the fire, the thunder, and the loud trumpets, so the same kind of attention happened for Pentecost. We know that it also includes something quite deeper because of Jeremiah the Prophet and also Ezekiel.

In Jeremiah we find that the Lord says that he will give us a heart of flesh in which he will write his covenant, his law. Then in Ezekiel he would give us his very Spirit so that we were able to keep his statutes and we would be his people and he would be our God.

So the new covenant is obviously the accomplishment of the new creation. When Peter stood up in the community in Jerusalem on the feast of Pentecost and preached the Word of God and in that following week he was a fearless, a changed person. He could stand before the very people that had Jesus crucified and in boldness say that there= s only one name in the whole universe by which we are saved. Obviously, Peter had a whole different view of his own life and that of the whole world that came from the gift of the Spirit, namely that he was renewed in the name of Jesus. Not by giving a new name like my last name would be of the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, no, but by being immersed in the very person of the resurrected Christ so that we are empowered to be a new people, and this is what we see. Later on as we listen to the text from the epistle of John that when we ask the Father for anything in his name, in Jesus= name, the Father will give it to us. Meaning that when we live out this anointing of the Spirit we are a totally different person because in Christ we are united with Jesus= agenda and his purposes and the Father hears his Son in us and therefore he does what we want.

So there is no excuse for any of us in our life because we have been given the Spirit. We are empowered to fulfill all that God has called us to do. The real striving that we must practice is precisely to live out a life in the Spirit. So Paul can say: Put on the Lord, Jesus Christ and make no provisions for the flesh. Live in the Spirit so that you may be transformed.