Over the next few days I will give a short reflection on images from my past parishes in New York and Oregon. It shows a wooden cross draped with a white cloth, reminiscent of the burial cloth which helped the people to bring Jesus down from the cross, and in which he was eventually wrapped for his burial. The yellow flowers are forsythia which bloom profusely in the spring. In fact, in the middle of winter, or let’s say in late January and early February, I would cut a few branches from this tree and bring them inside. Once they’ve been frozen outside, they would quickly bloom in a little water and a warmer climate. Then I would use them to decorate the sanctuary with these bright yellow flowers, with the people wondering how I got them to bloom in mid-winter. This image portrays the new life which the Risen Christ instils in the parishioners and everyone else driving by this particular parish which was Holy Family in Hicksville, on Long Island, New York.
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