....plus Jesus in the Monstrance?
Obviously a big part of World Youth Day (infact the main part) is an encounter with Christ...and the most real encounter anyone can ever have with Christ is in the Most Blessed Scarament where the Lord is present body, blood, soul and divinity under the form of bread.
To facilitate this ongoing encounter with Christ this WYD as other before it will have a number of adoration sites both in the CBD during the week and at Randwick during the weekend. Now we want the altars on which the Monstrance sits to be beautiful, to express to all people our faith in the presence of the Eucharistic King. I wanted then to decorate these altars more than our commercial catechesis venues so was able to get an allowance for altar frontals to be made.
On Sunday mum and I popped down to Spotlight then to see what would make a good frontal for our altars. Obviously they don't sell the type of liturgical fabic I would have liked as a preference but I think we selected one that is quite beautiful as I hope you agree from the picture. The think panel that mum is holding was just a test, we did not select a separate panel colour but we did buy enough of the gold fabric to cover the altar front and will continue to look for a panel colour that works, perhaps one that pics up a bit more gold.
It was a fun little expedition and humbling to know that you are making choices that will enhance or detract from the visual faith experience of so many thousands of people. As people of body and soul what our body takes in through the senses is imporant, nay, essential. This is what the liturgical minimalists forget, that we are not angels but rather people that require beauty to lead us to the beauty of God.
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