Today is Pentecost Sunday — the day the Church celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles. Tongues of fire, bold proclamation, transformed lives. The prayer rises again: Come Holy Spirit, Come. Fill our hearts, renew the face of the earth, and especially renew this broken state of Minnesota.
That same Spirit doesn’t whisper sweet nothings about delegating your calling to someone else with other people’s money. He calls you to get up and do the work yourself.
Saint Katharine Drexel shows us exactly what that looks like. This wealthy Philadelphia heiress saw the desperate spiritual and material needs of Native Americans. She went straight to the top — an audience with Pope Leo XIII in 1887. She asked the Holy Father to send missionaries to do the heavy lifting.
The Pope looked her dead in the eye and said, in essence: “Why not you, my child? Why don’t you become a missionary?”
That one question flipped the script in her soul. She didn’t write bigger checks or lobby for more government programs. She founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, poured her own fortune into real schools and missions, took vows, and spent her life in direct service. No middlemen grifting off the top. No fake praise for “raising awareness.” Just raw, personal obedience to the call.
Contrast that with the arrogant, narcissistic racket running Minnesota today.
We’ve got a whole class of modern Puritans — the ones I wrote about in “Minnesotans Puritans: The Puritan Complex.” They wrap themselves in moral superiority, lecture us about compassion and equity, then build entire empires on stolen tax dollars, fees, grants, and rigged systems. They manufacture crises, fund “solutions” through layers of nonprofits and bureaucracies, pat each other on the back at award galas, and destroy the very families and children they claim to help.
These are the same operators who scream about “the children” while daycare fraud networks loot millions. The same ones who push every social engineering scheme under the sun while our communities rot. They don’t do the hard, personal work of charity and reform. They outsource it to the syndicate — political machines, connected nonprofits, corporate enablers — so they can skim glory and cash without ever getting their own hands dirty or their own lives disrupted.
That’s not the Holy Spirit at work. That’s the spirit of this age — pride, greed, deception.
Katharine Drexel heard the call and changed her entire life. The Minnesota grift machine hears the call and forms another 501(c)(3) to “study the problem” with your money.
Come Holy Spirit, Come — and expose the deceivers. Awaken the deceived. Burn away the whitewashed tombs full of dead men’s bones.
My campaign prayer fits this moment perfectly:
“Heavenly Father, shine Your light on Minnesota’s shadows. Awaken the deceived, expose the deceivers, and guide us to righteousness through Jesus Christ. Amen.”
We don’t need more fake virtue from the Puritan Complex. We need men and women who hear the Spirit, stand up, and do the work themselves — exposing the racketeering networks looting our state, protecting our kids, restoring rule of law in this constitutional republic, and rebuilding what greed and hypocrisy have torn down.
No more prohibition-for-profit scams. No more nonprofit grift disguised as gospel. No more turning human suffering into a revenue stream for the connected.
The vision is clear: a Minnesota where faith drives real personal action, families thrive without government predation, hardworking people keep what they earn, and the shadows get dragged into the light.
That’s the fight worth waging. That’s the renewal Pentecost demands.
Candidate for Governor of Minnesota 2026
Phillip C. Parrish
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor
Heidi Wanty
Phone: 1 (612) 460-1717
Freedom Talk with Phil on X @parrish4mn
Let the Spirit move. Let the cleansing fire fall. Let’s get after it.