{"id":425,"date":"2014-06-06T00:23:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T14:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=425"},"modified":"2014-06-06T00:23:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T14:23:43","slug":"flowers-in-the-font","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Flowers in the Font"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came into the church Monday afternoon to see our rather shabby font lit up with beautiful red roses.\u00a0 It looks glori\"???????????????????????????????\"<\/a>ous.\u00a0 Yet the words from my study at Trinity College came back to me.\u00a0 God does not like the font used for a receptacle for church decorations.\u00a0 It is set apart for baptism, not to double as a pedestal for vases or harvest pumpkins.\"???????????????????????????????\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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But multipurpose versatile churches are becoming more a sustainable reality now.\u00a0 And anyway I think these roses in the font for Pentecost make a beautiful symbol.\u00a0 Both the flame and the living water and the beauty all rolled into one.\u00a0 But I would like the font to be beautiful without the flowers.<\/p>\n

\"Baptism<\/a>My last parish had a huge font.\u00a0 So large that even when I stood on steps, I had difficulty leaning over the font to baptise the child.<\/p>\n

And yet here in the bigger Christchurch Swan Hill, the font is tiny, the original from the first church here no doubt, and I don\u2019t want to change it, but I would love to somehow make it beautiful.\u00a0 \"Font<\/a><\/p>\n

This one with an added blue bowl looks stunning, and I know a beautiful glass bowl transformed Christ Church Castlemaine\u2019s font to a thing of grace and beauty.\u00a0 I will be looking out for the right bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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