My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, peace be with you. Well, congratulations. You have made it to the end of the Easter season, the culmination of which is this beautiful Solemnity of Pentecost, in which we recall the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles fifty days after the Passover — in other words, fifty days after Jesus was crucified. Basically, it is in the very name itself: Pentecost, fifty days. This was originally the Jewish feast which celebrated the harvest and later the giving of the Law at Sinai. But now we celebrate it as fifty days after Christ’s Passover, where God gives not stone tablets, but the Holy Spirit Himself.