In villages and hamlets across El Salvador, people would tune in their radios every Sunday to hear a sermon from their archbishop, Oscar Romero. We reproduce here the sermon he delivered on Pentecost Sunday 38 years ago Today we celebrate the great Feast of Pentecost. The Spirit of God is revealed to us, the Spirit that Christ, through his Resurrection and eternal life, breathed forth into the Church. For this reason, even though the Church is persecuted, it can never be overcome. Many of you participated in the Easter Vigil. The paschal candle illuminated the midnight sky of Holy Saturday and became light through the candles that you carried. This light now becomes tongues of fire that fall from Heaven (Acts 2:3) and tells us that these paschal torches are symbols of God who takes on fl