Mary at Pentecost 
 Those of us who have been used to a more static representation of the events of Pentecost may find this artist's interpretation surprising. And yet, it could be close to the reality of the Pentecost event which so affected the disciples that people thought they were drunk with wine. (Acts. 2:13) Mary, whose prayer hastened the coming of the Spirit, is seen as the hidden missionary force in the Church at its beginning. Something of that same zeal and urgency was felt by the early Marists. Jeanne-Marie Chavoin reminded her sisters: 'We must have confidence. God is not dead!' Marcellin Champagnat's zeal led him to admit: 'I cannot see a child without telling him how much God loves him.' And Jean-Claude Colin said even at the end of his life: 'I have a great ambition -to seize the whole world under the wings of Mary....' He also wanted the Third Order 'to cover the earth'.
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