This is one of the most important Holy Days, commemorating the Descent of The Holy Spirit, on, in Catholic Fundamentalism terms, “The Opening of Access to The Holy Wireless Connector”. We may consider the following passage (elsewhere on this site, the Church’s Weekly Readings are “translated” into words reflecting The Father as The Unprogrammed Programmer, etc.) today.
Today’s reading, Acts, 2;11: “Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven staying in Jerusalem. At this sound, (the “roar” from the previous verse) they gathered in a large crowd, but they were confused because each one heard them (those with sudden access to The Holy Wireless Connector) speaking in his own language. They were astounded, and in amazement they asked,
“Are not all these people who are speaking Galileans? Then how does each of us hear them in his native language? We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia,
Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya near Cyrene, as well as travelers from Rome, both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs, yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty acts of God.”
Right in front of them, the linguistic confusion downloaded at Babel was miraculously reversed, showing that God had erased the divisions between peoples to two, those who would be saved and those who would not.
We may profitably apply this passage to Pascal’s idea of Scripture and the Jews. He thought it was one of the greatest mysteries of the Bible, and one of the greatest manifestations of God’s power, that the earlier Judaic establishment whose revelations from God built the faith then rejected Jesus, “the Cornerstone”. Mysteriously, they were responsible for distributing the Sacred Scriptures to so many places in the world where those Scriptures would later be used provide the theological and intellectual base by which those who would be saved could have it shown directly to them that Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of the prophets.
Making all those copies of the First Download was expensive. Sheep had to be raised, skinned, their skins prepared, ink had to be made, and endless hours of expensive writing had to be produced, edited, and sent to Temples throughout the world, and all that cost a lot of money.
One understands that The Holy Wireless Connector had, for thousands of years, been “connecting” God’s chosen among the chosen people with accurate knowledge of future downloads. That realization was so powerful that many left the powerful religious/economic structure of Judaism and embraced this miraculous new Download and the new Operating Instructions therein provided. Indeed, one may see from Pascal that the Jewish establishment was “hoist by its own petard”, providing, as it did, the means for believers to leave the Old Operating Instruction for the New.
