Today is the feast of Pentecost. A good phrase to repeat today is the following:
Emitte Spiritum tuum et renova faciem terrae!
Send forth your Spirit and renew the face of the earth!
It recalls how the Holy Spirit was active during the Creation of the world and reminds us how the Holy Spirit can be implored to re-create, to renew, the face of the earth- or of society, so that it can be made pleasing once again to the Creator.
Vocabulary
Emitte- Send forth, emit (verb, imperative of emittere )
Spiritum- Spirit (noun, accusative of Spiritus)
tuum - your (possessive pronoun, accusative of tuus)
et - and
renova - renew (verb, imperative of renovare)
faciem - face (noun, accusative of facies)
terrae - of the earth (noun, genitive of terra)
