To those who at this moment are distressed because they cannot recognize – in the confusion and changes of today – the Church of their childhood or even that of yesterday, this book offers a message: be of courage, the power deep within the heart of his Church, breathing into it a fresh youthfulness. It is the spirit who is our living hope for the future. A NEW PENTECOST? is for the world' it brilliantly demonstrates the essential faith in the Holy Spirit which is the raison d'etre of the Christian Church' Upon the renewal of this faith, so splendidly alive in Suenens, the future, not only of the shape of the Church, but also of worldwide Christianity depends.