Imagining the Lectionary: I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people
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Imagining the Lectionary: I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people
(Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Year C)
Reflection accompanying images: “An angel of the Lord stood before them”
“I am bringing you good news ” and “To you is born this day ”
'The Angel Raphael' by Shawn Williamson is one of the real delights of the sculpture walk at Rydal Hall in the Lake District. The figure is inseparably part of the whole rock from which it has been hewn, and appears to emerge from it and take form in an act of revelation
which discloses a mystical truth about the sacredness of all reality. The holy and divine is all around us and the material world exists in the unifying dimension of the sacred. For me the sculpture is an intimate portrayal of the life-imparting presence of God at the heart of
everything that is. To speak of one is to imply the other. We should not be surprised then that the divine presence reaches out to us from within the substance and circumstance of daily life. The appearance of the angel is a meeting place and bridging point between the world of our senses and the world of our faith which discloses that these coinhere as one.
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