Art – Abbey of St. Walburga https://walburga.org Sat, 26 Jul 2025 22:34:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://walburga.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cropped-Front-Entrance-St.-Walburga-Statue-Square-512-32x32.jpg Art – Abbey of St. Walburga https://walburga.org 32 32 192481327 He is Risen! Alleluia! https://walburga.org/2025/04/19/he-is-risen-alleluia/ Sun, 20 Apr 2025 01:05:56 +0000 https://walburga.org/?p=3672

This year our paschal candle department, consisting of six sisters, offered various parishes and monasteries two design options, both centered on Eucharistic symbolism. Created by two of our solemnly professed Sisters, one design was centered on the theme of Christ the Vine (cf. John 15), and the other, inspired by the Azulejos tiles of Portugal, included symbols for Christ, Mary, and the Jubilee Year of Hope. These designs were painted on candles large and small by the artists in our community.

Paschal candles are used during the Easter Vigil Mass to carry the flame from the Easter fire into the church, and from which every other candle in the church is lit, as a symbol of Christ the true Light enlightening the world and dispelling the darkness of evil.  

 I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower.

By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.
As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.

John 15: 1, 8-12

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