O living Breath of God, by whose power the Son came to birth among us;

O living Breath of God, who to the creation gives life anew:

Come now, and fill our spirits; pour out your gifts abundant.

O living Breath of God, Holy Spirit, breathe in us as we pray.

--"O Living Breath of God," text by Osvaldo Catena; tr. Gerhard M Cartford, B. 1923 (ELW 407)

“It is the Spirit’s work to draw what might otherwise be a cacophonic disunity into symphony. The Spirit worked to transcribe God’s music for playing on the human instrument of Jesus of Nazareth; the Spirit now works to orchestrate that theme for an ensemble of billions.”

--Mike Higton, Christian Doctrine, (SCM 2008), 161.

"[At Pentecost], shy people had become bold, scared people had become gutsy, and lost people had found a sure direction. Disciples who had not believed themselves capable of tying their own sandals without Jesus discovered abilities within themselves they never knew they had. When they opened their mouths to speak, they sounded like Jesus."

--Barbara Brown Taylor, “The Gospel of the Holy Spirit,” in Home By Another Way

"Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours;

yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion looks out on the world,

yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good

and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now."

--Teresa of Avila