a voice from the rustbelt: preparing the carpets

Thursday, April 6, 2023

preparing the carpets

Las Alfombras de Semana Santa, a cartouche is drawn on plastic, and then colored sawdust and/or sand are applied until complete.

This is one of the annual events i enjoy to see each year. I am saddened more people do not see this art and devotion. An earlier pastor, Fr. Reidy, brought this Meso-American cultural celebration to La Sagrada Familia. He is now at a parish in Brook Park, and they did one here.

Click previous years: 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022

Some are made by an individual. This one a Guatemalan family did.

The Virgin of Guadalupe is a favorite subject. Here she comforts Pope Francis.

John and Karma came last year with Cassius.

There are five rows this year. Not shown is a partitioned area for the repose of the Sacrament on Holy Thursday.

In the sanctuary the vesting for Sorrowful Mother for to-morrow Black Friday.

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