With our worship space enhancements complete, I want to share with you some exciting news. We had originally proposed getting new stations of the cross, and it was widely supported in our survey. But we did not have consensus on a specific plan or funding for it.
At our last pastoral council meeting, we agreed to commission Robert Gerwing to write icon stations for our church. You can find out more about him at www.robertgerwingicons.com We feel that this will add more color and a sacred feel to our worship space, and he will give us high quality icons at an incredibly reasonable price. They will be similar to the icons in our Blessed Sacrament chapel.
We can now fund this because there have been more donations that we anticipated toward our enhancements, and the Xavier Impact Fund on “Building Faith” is assisting as well.
Robert is excited to do this. In 53 years of professional art, he has never done the fourteen stations. He anticipates completion in November 2025. Upon completion, he has agreed to do a group zoom with our parish to educate us on icons and answer questions.