Today is Pentecost, and it was a hot and sunny day. We didn't have to wear red collars, but the keeper did wear her red shoes. She was off to several festivities. But we all went outside once she came home. She was particularly impressed by the morning's rousing preaching (if it had been at St. T's--there would have been Amens) and the reminder that although the Spirit had been with the disciples after the first Easter appearance (Jn), 50 days later that Spirit needed awakening out of the fear which had stifled it so quickly. Fr. R reminded them that all carry the dormant Spirit, which needs a gentle, or not so gentle, awakening out of its numbed slumber. She also commented on the powerful way the Cathedral composer had woven in ethereal sounds, groans, sirens, moans, in and out of the chanted music today. She felt that the sounds were the alarms which rouse the Spirit as well as the disturbing noise of spirit finding its way out of hibernation--not an easy or a comfortable journey.
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