“Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” As the altar was stripped after the Holy Thursday Mass, so we now strip our tableau of all its symbols.   Previous weeks During Lent seven symbols were added to the tableau: Ash Wednesday: the embers and ashes of a fire. As...

“If I, then, the Lord and Master, have washed your feet, you should wash each other’s feet.” As we near the end of our Lenten journey with Jesus, the symbols from previous Sundays are removed from our tableau in front of the altar. In their place we put a jug,...

“Most of the crowd spread their garments on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.” Today we walk with Jesus into Jerusalem, to join him on his final journey to death and resurrection. In our Lenten tableau in front of the altar...

This year during Lent we are using the space before the altar to illustrate symbolically our journey with Jesus from the desert to Jerusalem. We use as a basis the symbol of sackcloth, a traditional sign of repentance. Hessian fabric, together with stones, forms the basis of a tableau representing...