Fourteen confirmations, three baptisms, and one reception

Had we not heard the Bible readings for Pentecost yesterday, testimony to the Spirit would have still been pervasive and undeniable. With 14 Confirmations, Three Baptisms, and one Reception, representing St. John’s Cathedral, Holy Trinity, Spokane, and St. James, Cashmere, amidst music that transported one heavenward (not an exaggeration), even a casual onlooker would have seen a spiritually transformative event.

At the end, there were numerous expressions of thanksgiving: thanksgiving for the holy grandeur of worship in the Cathedral, of a place that has a Table for all people, and the renewed recognition that the vivid account of the coming of the Spirit in the Acts reading is never limited to one people or one time in history, but an ever-recurring, living truth.