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All
Souls Chapel and Columbarium
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Reflections
(Rev. Rod Gillis) -
Stained
Glass Art (Ernie Clarke, Chair Columbarium Committee) Alpha
and Omega Tree
of Life Rainbow Dove Lion
and Lamb Resurrection
Morning Madonna
and Child Ruth
and Naomi Light
of the World Saint
James -
Other Furnishings Alpha
and Omega
Alpha
and Omega, the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, symbolize God
as the beginning and the end of everything. "I
am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is, who was, and who is
to come, the sovereign Lord of all." - Revelations 1:8 "I
am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the
thirsty I will give water from the spring of life as a gift." -
Revelations 21:6
[Alpha
sponsored by: St.
James ACW in loving memory of Anglican Church Women]
[Omega
sponsored by: St.
James Mothers' Union in loving memory of Mothers and Families]
Tree
of Life
"The
Lord God made trees grow up from the ground, every kind of tree pleasing
to the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden he set the
Tree of Life." - Genesis 2:9 "To
those who are victorious I will give the right to eat from the Tree of
Life that stands in the garden of God." - Revelation 2:7 "The
angel showed me the river of the water of life, sparkling like crystal,
flowing from the throne of God ... On the other side of the river stood
the Tree of Life ... The leaves of the trees are for the healing of
nations." - Revelation 22:1-2 "Happy
are those who wash their robes clean! They shall be free to eat from
the Tree of Life and may enter the city by the gates." - Revelation
22:14
[Sponsored
by: The
Upton Family in loving memory of Bessie and William Pooley, and Arthur
Pooley] Rainbow
"God
said, 'For all generations to come, this is a sign which I am giving of
the covenant between myself and you and all living creatures with you: My
(rain)bow I set in the clouds to be a sign of the covenant between myself
and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth, the (rain)bow
will appear in the clouds ... Whenever the (rain)bow appears in the cloud,
I shall see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and
living creatures of every kind on earth'. So God said to Noah.
'This is the sign of the covenant which I have established with all that
lives on earth.' " - Genesis 9:12-17
[Sponsored
by: John
Stovman in loving memory of Mildred (Milly) Stovman]
Dove
No
sooner had Jesus been baptized and come up out of the water than the
heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove to
alight on him. And there came a voice from heaven saying, "This
is my beloved Son, in whom I take delight." - Matthew 3:16-17
[Sponsored
by: Geraldine
(Gerry) Scott in loving memory of Joseph G. Scott] Lion
and Lamb
The
Lion and Lamb symbolize the peaceful end times and God's promise of a
peacable Kingdom on the holy mountain. "Neither
hurt nor harm will be done in all my holy mountain." - Isaiah 65:25 [Sponsored
by: William
(Bill) and Eva Gates] Resurrection
Morning
About
daybreak on the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary
came to look at the grave. Suddenly there was a violent earthquake;
an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and rolled away the stone, and
sat down on it. His face shone like lightning, his garments were
white as snow. The angel spoke to the women: "Have nothing to
fear. I know you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He
is not here. He has been raised, as he said he would be." -
Matthew 28:1-6
[Sponsored
by: The
Family of Wilfred and Edna Morgan in loving memory of Edna Laura Morgan
and Wilfred Reeves Morgan] Madonna
and Child
After
Jesus' birth, "astrologers from the east arrived in Jerusalem, asking
'Where is the newborn king?" They were directed to the home of
Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem "and entering the house, they saw the
child with Mary his mother and bowed low in homage to him." - Matthew
2:11 [Sponsored
by: Andrew
and Dawn (Daly) and Heidi and Kathryn Harvey in loving memory of James and
Laura Daly and Sydney and Elizabeth Harvey] Ruth
and Naomi
After
the death of her own husband, Ruth supported her widowed mother-in-law
Naomi by gleaning in the fields at harvest time. Later she
accompanied her back to Naomi's hometown of Bethlehem. There Ruth
married again and had a son who became the grandfather of King David. "Ruth
gleaned in the field until sunset, and when she beat out what she had
gathered it came to about a bushel of barley." - Ruth 2:17
[Sponsored
by:
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Frank and Ruth (Sheidow) Huelin in loving memory of the Huelin and Sheidow
Families
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Gordon and Jean (Verge) Bradley in loving memory of the Bradley and Verge
Families
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Brenda (MacDonald) and Jennifer and Laura Gray in loving memory of Daniel
and Lucy MacDonald -
Paul and Helen Murray] Light
of the World
Christ,
the Light of the World, knocks at the door of the human heart. This
window is a stained glass version of the well known painting, 'The Light
of the World', painted in 1853 by the Pre-Raphaelite British artist,
William Holman Hunt. Hunt
himself explained the symbolism: "The closed door is the obstinately
shut mind" he wrote, and the weeds overgrowing the door represent
"the accumulated hindrances" that keep us from letting Christ
into our lives. "In making it a night scene, lit mainly by the
lantern carried by Christ, I followed the explanation in Psalms - Thy word
is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path - with also the allusion
of St. Paul to the sleeping soul - The night is far spent, the day is at
hand". [Sponsored
by: Beatrice
MacDonald in loving memory of Edmund Luther MacDonald] Saint
James
Our
parish saint, the Apostle St. James, was a brother of John and is thought
to have been closely related to Christ. He is reputed to have
travelled widely, visiting Spain by sea many times, and he was the first
to establish the Christian religion there. St.
James appears with a pilgrim's staff with a traveller's bundle attached,
and with a scallop shell nearby, all symbols of his many pilgrimages. [Sponsored
by: Beatrice
MacDonald in loving memory of Edmund Luther MacDonald] Other
Furnishings In
addition to stained glass windows, parishioners have recently very
generously placed other furnishings in All Souls Chapel and
Columbarium. They are: Memorial
Book Betty
Rice in memory of all the Choirs, their Directors and Organists who served
in All Souls Chapel Oak
Table and Two Oak Chairs Ken
Conrod Display
Case Marjorie
Jarvis in loving memory of George Frederick Jarvis Pall Myrtle
Engram in loving memory of Clary Engram Desk
Lamp Positioned
over Memorial Book - the Bradley Family Oak
Doors H.
Doris Webber in loving memory of the Webber Family |
