Spirit of Forgiveness
Pentecost Sunday 8th Sunday of Easter, May 20 , 2018 "He breathed on them and said, 'Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them...'” The early Christians probably understood these words to refer only to receiving people into the Church by Baptism, because when some "left" the Church by apostasy and returned, many assumed the only way to restore them to grace was by baptizing them again. This was condemned by the Church as false, but led to eventual reco