The Solemnity of Pentecost Sunday

Photo & Description: Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P. Stained Glass Window from St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville, KY.

Photo & Description: Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P.
Stained Glass Window from St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville, KY.

“Holy Spirit, Lord of Light,

From the clear celestial height

Thy pure beaming radiance give.”

— The opening verse of the great Sequence hymn for Pentecost, “Veni Sancte Spiritus.”

Photo & Description: Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P.
Stained Glass Window from St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville, KY.

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