Cathedral Will Host Healing Service

The Cathedral of St. John will host a healing service at 7 p.m. Thursday with a special emphasis on patients awaiting organ or tissue transplants.

More than 75 people in the Inland Northwest are waiting for an organ transplant - mostly kidneys, but also hearts, lungs and livers.

Several of them are members of St. John’s Cathedral, including Episcopal Bishop Jeff Terry, who is waiting for a heart transplant.

“We’ve been praying for these people in our community for months, sometimes years,” said the Rev. Kristi Philip, a priest at St. John’s.

The church, at 127 E. 12th, is just up the hill from Sacred Heart Medical Center, where many of the transplants are performed.

The service is open to everyone. It will include communion, special prayers for transplant patients and a sacrament of anointing for the sick.

Throughout the evening there will be a prayer vigil, with volunteers taking one-hour shifts.

“It’s a way of offering a witness of the power of prayer in the wider community,” Philip said. For more information call 838-4277.

, DataTimes