There is a song for everything, as you probably know.  Whenever I recall near-disastrous events involving candles and acolyte-robe sleeves (and I’ve seen a few in my day), the song “This is a Church on Fire” pops into my head.   Not so funny when it involves a real fire, but the metaphor is a good one for the day of Pentecost, which is right around the corner.  It is a wonderful Sunday that is an ending as well as a beginning:  the end of the “Great Fifty Days” of the Easter Season (Pentecost means “the 50^th day” in Greek) and the beginning of the commemoration of the beginnings of the church.  But it is also an opportunity to ask ourselves the question, “What is this community ‘on fire’ about?”

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