This year for the Feast of the Assumption, the pastor of our little country parish asked if I would help create a processional litter for the statue of Our Lady. He had the great idea of repurposing an old table! It seemed Our Lady was smiling down on me that day when I walked into the thrift store and there it was for twenty dollars: a perfect square, three foot, solid oak table. A few months ago, my kind friend, mentor, and owner of Altarations Paraments in Oregon sent me a box loaded with remnants of liturgical fabric. I added a white skirt around the bottom to hide the table legs and a carpenter attached brackets for the removable oak rods. I was a bit nervous about creating the arrangements for the litter. They needed to be as light as possible and secured to the litter to withstand being jostled about in the procession. I found four plastic oval platters at the dollar store, added a block of wet foam, taped it in place and created the arr...
Perfectly designed!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your guidance and encouragement Marie-Jacqueline! Finally I can share these things I find so important to the restoration of beauty in the Church, with someone who shares the same interests!
ReplyDeleteI think you will soon find many more who share the same interests!
ReplyDelete