From 2008: It's Thursday in the Octave of Pentecost. We hear St. Leo the Great’s teaching on Pentecost Ember Days as times for fasting and almsgiving, essential to Christian life and inner wisdom. Pope Benedict XVI reminds us that true Church unity is vital amid diversity. Music includes Gregorian chant, Hildegard von Bingen’s O Sapientia, and Tallis’s Loquebantur variis linguis. We conclude with a prayer to the Holy Spirit.
