UPDATE: Due to issues Zoom was having, this worship service and the business meeting to follow have been rescheduled for this upcoming Sunday, May 24, 2020.
Sixth Sunday of Easter
10:30 AM • ZOOM Meeting
Study Leader: Mark Biddle
Scripture: John 14:15-21
https://zoom.us/j/834854376
If you’d rather join by phone, call: (301) 715-8592
Meeting ID: 834 854 376
Our quarterly business meeting will begin 15 minutes after the completion of the worship service using the same Zoom meeting space.
In this time of social distancing, we stay connected to one another by gathering virtually in worship to join our voices together in prayer, to fellowship and share with one another, and to explore scripture in an interactive format. Contact Sheryl or the church office if you need help getting ZOOM onto your device.
Artwork: At the bottom of this terracotta frieze, one of four decorating the Watts Chapel in Compton, England, are three supporting figures. The middle one is The Spirit of Truth.
The Watts Cemetery Chapel, designed and built by Mary Fraser Tytler Watts, a symbolist craftswoman, designer and social reformer, contains a significant collection of iconography that adapts themes from the Gospels, particularly the Gospel of John, and indigenous Celtic symbolism. She largely worked in the fields of Celtic and Art Nouveau bas-reliefs, pottery, metalwork and textiles. For the Watts Chapel, she set up a pottery-making operation and employed local workers, thereby also advancing the social, economic, and spiritual lives of the less educated members of her community.
“The design itself is an amalgamation of inspiration, every aspect having symbolic meaning. The Circle of Eternity with its intersecting Cross of Faith is from pre-historic times and symbolises the power of redeeming love stretching to the four quarters of the earth. The dome is traditionally seen as emblematic of heaven, the four panels on the exterior containing friezes symbolising the Spirit of Hope, the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Love and the Spirit of Light.” [from: http://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/chapel.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Fraser_Tytler]
Digital Image from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. [retrieved May 6, 2020]
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