This crucifix will be in the center of Lamb of God's Altar reredos. The crucifix acknowledges the death of the God/Man as the foundational reality of the Christian faith. Christ's sacrificial death in our place--for the forgiveness of our sins is the only basis for the salvation of humanity. The realistic nature of the figure of Christ is designed to impress upon the worshipper the grim reality of death by crucifixion and thus the high price that God's Son was willing to pay for our salvation. Nowhere else can the depth and power of God's love be seen more clearly than at the cross. The Savior bows His weary head, still crowned with the mocking of thorns, as if to look down in love upon the congregation gathered to worship.
The corpus was hand carved in the Demetz Art studio in Val Gardena, Italy. |
