In our day the Holy Spirit suffers great ignominy, sighed Luther, in reference to current doctrinal misunderstanding. In our day the Holy Spirit suffers great ignominy, might be a contemporary comment on neglect of the worship of, and witness to, the Holy Spirit. It has become almost a rubric to bemoan this neglect on Whitsunday, the third great feast of the church year, but this complaint is often followed by a tendency to contribute to the neglect and the ignominy through silence from the pulpit, as far as a living concern for the work of the Holy Spirit is concerned, on the other days of the year
