In his meditation for the first Sunday of Lent from "Lent is not Rocket Science" Bishop Knisely spoke of the cosmos, saying "The universe is essentially a great empty, soundless, cold, chaotic void...we believe that the same God who animates the vast cosmos, knows each of us individually by name and loves us."At St. Paul's in Pawtucket, a Sunday School class lead by Joe and Ivy Swinski was struck by this, and came up with the idea to create a powerful physical representation that their whole church could participate in. For Lent, the class created a visual representation of a desert, thinking that there is a part for each of us in this journey through the desert. The Desert had a big blank black backdrop to represent the cosmos as Bishop Knisely spoke of them.
Then this past Sunday as congregants left from having received communion, the students were at the exit of the sanctuary. The students handed each person a star, to take back to the pew and write their name on. Then at the end of the service people went to the "great empty, soundless, cold, chaotic void and hung their star in that place where "God knows each of us individually by name and loves us."
The end result was that the black void is now full of light and love, and many parishioners were in tears. Check it out!
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