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Stained glass in St.
Andrew's:
Timbrel and Harp
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The
two central panels illustrate the Flight into Egypt with St.
Joseph leading the donkey and holding a staff, which bears a
symbolic lily (as in the window to the left in the Christmas
scene) with Hosea's prophecy 'Out of Egypt have I called my
Son'. |
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Below that are Moses and his sister Miriam (who led the dancing
in praise of the Lord, with a timbrel in her hand) at the Red
Sea, the great deliverance of the Israelites of which God had
said the words shown: 'I am come down to deliver them'. |
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To
the right of that we see the Holy Family in the carpenter's shop
- the boy Jesus working at the bench with his tools - the
Eternal Word of God, who was in the beginning with God and Who
lived among us as a craftsman, with the words 'Without Him was
not made anything that was made'. |
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Underneath that, the Boy David is shown with his harp, and the
flocks in the fields of Bethlehem. He became King after working
as a shepherd-boy in his youth, and was the forefather of the
Messiah, and the psalmist, who sang praise and prophecy to the
harp accompaniment. The words 'His going forth is prepared as
the morning' come from the prophet Hosea and are seen as
foretelling Christ and the new light that dawned in the darkness
when He was born 'in royal David's city'. |
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