Between the Upper Room and the Valley of Dry Bones

an ordination sermon

Tadao Tanaka Pentecost 1963

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 

Aly, your priesthood will be lived out not only in the upper room but also in the valley of dry bones—and in the wide, uncertain frontier that lies between them. As a priest, you will be called both to the blessed and the cursed, the holy and the profane. Mostly, howev…