Our Advent wreath is not a wreath at all, but instead is this really cool (sorry, I grew up in the 60s!) contemporary expression of the season of Advent with the traditional four candles, but set in a quite artistic and contemporary "wreath-like" setting. The candles and accompanying ribbons are set on four pyrex stands with a long sprig, well it's more like a branch, of an evergreen tree from our grounds, put inside. Here's a close up of one of them and another photo of the whole group in the center of chapel.
This is one thing I really love about our creative liturgist, musicians and artists--they can take traditional and valued expressions/symbols and put them in a more contemporary, meaningful setting. They do this with so many of our religious symbols and signs, songs and prayers.
Recently I re-connected with a gal that was two years ahead of me in high school and, as things are at that age, was one of the basketball players I looked up to when I was in 9th and 10th grade (as she was on the varsity in 11th and 12th). Here she is, back in Erie after quite a number of years on the west coast and, lo and behold, has found her way to the Mount and is experiencing our prayer through our Saturday night Advent vigils. After pulling away from formal religion for a while she seems to love our prayer and find it meaningful. I am thrilled to see her again and isn't that what it's all about?
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