SFX by the HS

I've been wanting to share this with you all for several days now.

Before our Good Friday Tenebrae service, Mary and I carried the glass-topped chancel table down from its usual location under the cross next to the wall, down to the level of the pulpit and lectern. We got it all centered up and positioned so the readers could easily extinguish a candle after each reading. The candles were all arranged. Everything looked great... simple... unadorned... we were ready.

After that I decided that at the end of the service, as I slipped out the side door, I would turn on one of the small spotlights that shone down in the area now occupied by the chancel table. Little did I know....

At the service - in the dark -when I turned up that one light, I thought I heard a gasp from the congregation. I found out a bit later that the light reflected off that glass top and through the candelabra. As the Holy Spirit would have it, the reflected light shone up on the wall, just at the level of our draped cross. An image appeared there from that reflection. To the left of the cross, it looked like a dove flying. To the right, it looked like a hill with three crosses on it!

Amazing. Grace.