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Veni Sancte Spiritus

May 31, 2020 by Amy Welborn

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I’ve spent a lot of time over the past month contemplating this window.

It’s been one of my favorites since I actually took time to study it. And, as I said, over the past month, as, thanks to the hospitality of the St. Francis Xavier parish staff, we’ve used this space for my son to practice and record videos for a piano competition – I’ve been sitting there,listening to Haydn, Brahms and Prokofiev for hours, considering this window.

So, take a look.

It’s a Pentecost window, of course. At the center top is the Holy Spirit, showering down those gifts on those gathered in the upper room.

And then, to the right, you have another figure – who is it? St. Paul, preaching, receiving the same light of the Spirit. St. Paul, of course, being the patron of the Diocese of Birmingham and the namesake of our Cathedral.

To the left is another figure – St. Francis Xavier, the patron of this very parish. He’s surrounded by symbolic respresentations of the Far East and the people whom he served.

The same Spirit, the same gifts, the same courage given to every link in the chain, from the upper room, through the various branches of the Communion of Saints that leads us to this spot here, in this church building, in this community, on this planet at this moment in time. And this is where you start – right here – and then keep moving, led by that same Spirit to speak – where ever you land.

 

Come, O Holy Spirit, come!
From your bright and blissful Home
Rays of healing light impart.

Come, Father of the poor,
Source of gifts that will endure
Light of ev’ry human heart.

 

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  1. on June 5, 2020 at 6:48 am Jeff Gill

    Amy, is that supposed to be an Omega at the center bottom of the window? Thanks for the image; I love the quiet way it affirms that as Paul also received the Spirit, so did Francis Xavier, as might we.

    But I keep trying to figure out what that element at the bottom is . . . at first I thought it was a scallop shell pouring out baptismal waters? But then . . .



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