"Suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit" (Acts 2:2-3)

On the evening of October 26, 2010 at the Holy Name Cathedral (Chicago, IL) more than 500 members of the area’s ecclesial movements and communities met around Francis Cardinal George for an annual appointment that has become like a yearly family reunion. The day’s incredible wind storm did not deter them.  Rather, it brought to mind the Pentecost gathering of movements in Vatican square on May 30, 1998, when 300,000 gathered around Pope John Paul II. In her welcome, Mary FioRito, Executive Assistant to Cardinal George and the Cardinal’s liaison to the movements, saw in the Chicago wind storm an encounter with the Holy Spirit.