una alfombra de Semana Santa

Miriam, designed, and her friends at LaSagra Familia helped to create this alfombra.

The parish has done these before [click], [and], [and].  La Sagrada Familia began this Holy Week celebration in 2014, Sacred Heart in Lorain for a score of years prior. Last year when this accursed virus hit, the custom was interrupted. Before they would do three columns of alfombras. This year, one alfombra only. St. Edward High is also doing one. Early this afternoon, the center was done, and work was being done on the edges. The bottom will say, "Jesus is Our Savior". The center circle is a clock with the co-vid 19 virus on the hour marks. There is a quote from Isaias, "Do not fear: I am with you and will uphold you with my victorious right hand".

We are living, and try to keep living, in this time of plague. On top of the circle are our nurses, doctors, and other "first responders" who first combat the virus to save lives, and promote our health. In the center is the Eucharist, and the young people in the lower left are our hope for a continued future.

In Meso-America these rugs are made with flowers; here in the sometimes cold North, it is colored saw dust. The rugs are trod upon Good Friday.