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The welcoming sight of Christ Church has graced the sky since 1893. How many people have turned aside and come through these doors and met the One in whom they live and move and have their being? How many lives have found meaning and freedom in the love of God shared here?







The cross is like a huge sign that sits upon our church, over the reserved sacrament as seen in this photograph, but most powerfully and invisibly on the forehead of all baptized Christians. It is a sign of a new thing happening in the world. It says that God is with us, even when we, in our fear and anger, reject him. His love, as the prayer goes, is expressed in the cross and offers us a different way to build a community without sacrificing or excluding others. Instead, God gives us his love, forgiveness, and mercy as we come to know it in Jesus and in this community of faith.









What do we mean by the Word of God? Some believe it is simply the words written in the Bible or the Bible as a whole. Others only claim the parts of the written word that they can accept. The veiled book contains the stories about the Word made flesh. These stories bear witness to the Word of God experienced in the face and life of Jesus. Jesus does not bear witness to the Bible. The Bible, over many centuries and through many contributers bears witness to him.

The veiled Gospel is a sign of Lent. What is hidden will be revealed in due time. What is revealed is the core of our faith about who God is and who we are and how God is doing something very new so that we are not abandoned to the old ways of violence and death.



Our prayers for Lent are again written on colorful strips of paper and linked together. They are contained within the baptismal font, but will continue to grow and expand to include more and more as we see the world through the eyes of God.

Thanks to Fran Pullara for the photographs on this page and to Lizz Beitzel for leading us in prayer through this most visual way.