Cardinal McElroy to Preside at San Diego’s ‘Pentecost Mass for All Peoples’

More than 2,000 are expected Saturday as Cardinal Robert W. McElroy celebrates the San Diego Diocese’s seventh annual Pentecost Mass for All Peoples.

The free event, at Cathedral Catholic High School near Pacific Highlands Ranch, will bring together more than two dozen cultural Catholic communities from the Americas and around the world.

The 11 a.m. mass will be preceded by a 10:50 a.m. parade of cultures, as each community dresses in their native attire.

A festival at 12:30 p.m. will offer multicultural food and live entertainment.

Cultures to be represented include Africans, Blacks, Chinese, Filipinos, Germans, Indians, Indonesians, Irish, Italian, Korean, Laotian, Latinos, Mexican, Native American, Samoan, Tongan, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Pentecost, considered the beginning of the Christian church, celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, who then set off to make disciples across the world.