Artwork by members of our church
Members of our church are very talented.
These are just some of the works of art
displayed for our Good Friday
Stations of the Cross service.
The Crucifixion, 
a watercolour by Alan.
Poppy by Rosemary
Collage for Good Friday, by Joan
Butterfly, signifying rebirth,
by Joe.
Crown of Thorns, by Alan
He carries our sorrows…
This piece is a study, a tribute to the New Zealand Catholic artist, the late Colin McCahon. He often used this iconic form of the cross (the tau – from the Greek letter ‘T’) in his work and had the habit of using words in his pictures. I was struck by the way McCahon referred to the cross as a ‘load-bearing structure’. In brutal, construction terms, that is what a cross was built to be. Metaphorically, it does that too. As Isaiah foreshadows in the passage quoted here, Jesus’ death is a demonstration of God’s desire to bear our sufferings – our crosses – with us.