Jesus Christ, The Bridegroom IV
J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R.*
This image from St. Joseph's Church in Lakeland, Florida
contains an explanation from Father O'Doherty
(below, modified slightly from the original)
At the very top of this window is the mother pelican in the seeming act of feeding her young. Very early in the second century, the pelican became a symbol of Christ. In so far as I can put together the ancient sailors believed that the pelican opened its own breast and fed its young with its own blood. This identifies it easily with Jesus who shed His blood for you and me, that we might have life. Given the pink colored tinge of the inner beak of the pelican and coupled with the blood from regurgitated fish. I can see how they thought it opened its own breast to feed its young and hence the link to Christ who said, “Unless you drink mu blood ye cannot have life in you.”
Sincerely yours in Jesus through Mary,
Mike Rizzio
Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God
Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!
* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for:
Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas;
St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael
contains an explanation from Father O'Doherty
(below, modified slightly from the original)
Of
Pelicans, Marriages,
Christ and Red, Red, Wine
Christ and Red, Red, Wine
At the very top of this window is the mother pelican in the seeming act of feeding her young. Very early in the second century, the pelican became a symbol of Christ. In so far as I can put together the ancient sailors believed that the pelican opened its own breast and fed its young with its own blood. This identifies it easily with Jesus who shed His blood for you and me, that we might have life. Given the pink colored tinge of the inner beak of the pelican and coupled with the blood from regurgitated fish. I can see how they thought it opened its own breast to feed its young and hence the link to Christ who said, “Unless you drink mu blood ye cannot have life in you.”
In the main body of the window, one
is immediately shown Jesus and Mary and behind them a bride and groom...Jesus
and Mary in the midst of a marriage celebration. Did you know that the words
“testament”, “covenant” and “Marriage” mean the same thing? In other words, the
Bible is divided into the story of the old marriage between God and the Jews
and the new marriage consummated once for all when the virgin Christ entered
once for all into the heavenly sanctuary not the blood of sheep and goats but
with His own blood. St. John says that at the moment Jesus died, the veil in the
temple of Jerusalem was torn in two from top to bottom. In Old Marriage
Testament Judaism the priest once a year used to enter the Holy Place in the
temple and sprinkle the blood of goats or lambs on bulls on the altar and then
come out and sprinkle some on the people as a sign that they were renewing
their covenant, testament or marriage with God. In truth, the whole Bible is
about marriage.
Did you know that in Jewish circles if a man offered a cup of wine to a woman, it was a proposal of Marriage? If she accepted, the marriage was to be. Every Sunday you are offered the cup of the new marriage consummated when Christ entered once for all into the heart of God. Soon, God willing, we will all join Him.
Did you know that in Jewish circles if a man offered a cup of wine to a woman, it was a proposal of Marriage? If she accepted, the marriage was to be. Every Sunday you are offered the cup of the new marriage consummated when Christ entered once for all into the heart of God. Soon, God willing, we will all join Him.
Some of the mystic saints of the
church like St. John of the Cross, St Teresa of Avila and Solomon, king of
Israel would say that the soul of man is feminine. So the offering to all
of the Holy Communion cup is even now an offer of marriage from Christ risen
from the dead to each of us.This stained glass window offers a profound statement of the nature of woman as
intercessor. It was Mary who approached Jesus because they had run out of wine.
We should pray today that Mary might ask her Son to change us from the way we
are to people who would give our life’s blood for Jesus and one another.
Mother Mary, Please intercede now
to protect the Sacrament of Marriage
Sincerely yours in Jesus through Mary,
Mike Rizzio
Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God
Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!
* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for:
Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas;
St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael
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