First Window--The Creation, The Paschal Lamb, Jesus with the Elders, The Baptism of Christ

The lower windows begin with the creation of the universe represented by the spheres circling the greatest moment in creation, the Birth of Jesus.  Mary is holding Jesus tenderly and Joseph is protecting them both, with God's holy light shinning on them.  The lambs represent the humbleness of Jesus' birth, and the beige lamb is a representation of Jesus, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.  The blood of that Pascal Lamb flows from his birth to the point of the Last Supper [in the second window] when Jesus gives us his blood to drink.  We are barely aware of the presence of the priest on the top of the temple building blowing the ram's horn, which is a symbol of important events, Christ being the most important.  Below this  priest is Jesus at the age of twelve in the temple with the elders.  Then we move to the baptism of Jesus--John the Baptist baptizing Jesus, and we notice that Jesus is always dressed in the color yellow.  This is the moment when God says, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased."  The Holy Spirit's presence is noticed in the form of the dove in the upper right hand corner.

Second Window--The Temptation of Christ, Christ Healing the Crowds, The Sermon on the Mount, The Last Supper

We move to the second window, the upper left-hand corner shows the devil speaking with Jesus.  The devil is made of clear glass indicating that a lot of times we do not recognize him.  Jesus is telling him that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.  The cross that Jesus is holding up is a sign of these words.  Below that group, Jesus has begun his ministry with healing the crowds.  Each person that came to Jesus, he healed' he never refused to heal anyone.  We move to Jesus as the teacher, and the pale yellow light flowing on the group shows God's pleasure;  Everyone is sitting around on the hillside while Jesus explains to them the Love of God.  At the lower corner is the little boy with two blue fish and the five loaves of bread.  Then we move to the Last Supper.  Christ is in the upper room with his disciples, and he is telling them that he must leave them and that his presence will always be with them--the bread is broken for them and the chalice holding his blood is poured out for all mankind.  Judas is also represented holding the bag of money, representing our ever present sinful nature.

We move to the third window.  The central idea of the window is Christ's prayer and suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane.  Along the way, we have noticed that angels in the background; they are not able to assist or help Jesus, but they are aware of his deep suffering.  The three favorite disciples are sound asleep at the foot of the first panel; We can see Judas coming with the Roman soldiers around the edge of the hill, Judas still hanging onto the bag of money.  The soldiers bring Jesus to Pontius Pilate, and we begin the first Station of the Cross.  Pilate finally relents and gives the people the right to crucify Jesus.  Jesus, his hand bound, is standing quietly on a red spot indicating that the judgment is not minor, but a judgment of life and death.  Below, the crowd shouts for crucifixion, symbolized by one man holding up a purple cross.  A purple cross will indicate each Station of the Cross.  This is the first Station, the first purple cross when people shout "Crucify Him!"

We move to the fourth window, and we are present at the time that the cock crows, in the upper left-hand corner, to remind Peter of his failing to follow Jesus and of his sinful human nature.  We notice the purple cross in the lower left-hand corner, the whip used to whip Jesus lying on the ground with little red balls of Jesus' blood.  The crown of thorns has been placed on Jesus' head and the cross given him to carry.  Against the wall is the palm branch that they also stuffed in his hand, and below, the purple robe that he was made to wear for a short time.  The invisible angels agitation is increased as Christ's suffering increases, and they try to reach out to save him from this terrible ordeal.  This is the Second Station.  We move to the Third Station, the purple cross is on the far right.  Christ falls from the beating, the weight of the cross and the treatment of everyone.

The next window depicts Christ carrying the cross and meeting his Mother, Mary.  Each time there is some gift of love or tenderness offered to Jesus, there will be a small lily at the bottom of the window.  In this case, the bright light of Mary's love and tender caring for Jesus produced that flower.  In the next scene, another lily is present because Simon of Cyrene has been compelled to carry the cross for Jesus.

We move to the other side of the Church.  The Sixth Station show Christ suffering so greatly that Veronica reached out with a cloth to wipe off the blood and help our Lord.  We don't know whether she was encouraged by the spirit of God, represented by the two hand and the pale yellow above, but we are reminded of this good deed by the lily below.  Simon of Cyrene is still carrying the cross with Jesus.  In the Seventh Station, Jesus falls again.  It shows from the fall that Jesus is getting weaker and it is much more difficult for him to rise again.

The Eighth Station is Jesus meeting the women of Jerusalem.  The bottom also has lilies because they followed him in love wanting to be with him.  He tells them not to weep for Him, but to weep for themselves because of the destruction that is to come.  In the Ninth Station, Christ falls completely and we see in the distance the three crosses that he has yet to suffer.  By the three crosses, we use the symbol of lightning because Jesus said, "I saw Satan fall from Heaven as a bolt of lightning".  Through his suffering and death on the cross, Jesus removed Satan's power over us.

We move to the Tenth Station, and we see Mary.  Mary has a blue veil, and her suffering is very intense at this point.  The soldiers are disrobing Jesus, their shield leaning up against the edge of the window.  Below them is the dice they will throw for Christ's robe.  The Eleventh Station shows the soldier in the upper right hand corner nailing the nails in Jesus' hands.  As the blood flows from Jesus, it is gathered up in the Chalice.  The wafer is present, reminding us that it was at this time that Jesus poured out his lifeblood for us.  Even though the reality of the bread and the wine for us is present, the spirits holding the bread and the wine indicate that there is a certain part that is still a great mystery and a part that we don't completely understand.  The base of the cross is on Golgotha, and at the foot of the cross is the symbol of the skull.  The angels and God's Spirit that are present begin to be shown in the upper right-hand corner in the deeper red color.  Also, one of the invisible spirit's hands is reaching up to the soldier who is about to hit the nail into Christ's hand to delay or stop his causing more pain to our Lord.

We move to the Crucifixion window.  In this window, is the first awareness of that moment when Christ gives up his spirit and dies.  The temple curtain, symbolized in the dark red color, is rent in two from the top to the bottom, meaning God and his people are no longer separated; that the sacrifice was accepted, and we can now have a personal relationship with God.  Jesus is crucified on the cross with the symbol of the paper saying "Jesus, King of the Jews" on top.  The two thieves are on either side.  The unrepentant thief looking away from Jesus, the repentant thief looking toward Him as Savior.  In the lower left, Mary, her spirit completely leaving her, is held by the other Mary and John.  In his right hand, he also holds a lily as a symbol of that special moment of their presence with Jesus to the very end.  At Jesus' feet, the vinegar and gall is poured out because he would not accept any pain killer at the time of his crucifixion.  These are represented by the dark greenish jug pouring out a light pink-purpley liquid.  Above the hill where the cross is standing and in the background are the Old Testament figures that pointed to Christ as the Savior that God had promised in the covenant God made with his people.  The Old Testament figures are represented in dark blue include Adam and Eve--the promise that a seed of Eve would crush Satan.  Next Melchizedek who has his hand folded--in one hand, a loaf of bread, in the other a chalice with a pink spot.  Melchizedek was a foretelling of a kind of Christ.  Then Abraham who has the dagger to kill Isaac in the lighter blue color, and Isaac's body draped over the altar.  Then, Moses pointing ahead to Jesus, and David from whose lineage Jesus would come.  On the other side, in the dark blue color, are the New Testament figures who were not present at the time of the Crucifixion--John the Baptist, with his hand raised pointing to the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world; Joseph with his hands covering his face, not wanting to see the scene; Anna and Simeon who were at Christ's circumcision in the temple and foretold his coming.  The figures in the dark green on the two sides of the window are the people present deriding and laughing at the scene.  The figures in the purple and pink tones are the presence of God's angles and spirits in deep mourning that the Son of God should have to suffer so.  In the far right panel in the lower area, is one of soldiers holding up, in a yellow color, the sponge that he had dipped in vinegar to wet the lips of Jesus after He said He was thirsty.  This is another act of compassion and care, and is symbolized by the blue lilies at the bottom of that window.  Above the lilies is the centurion whose hand is pointing to Jesus saying, "Surely this was the Son of God," and below him a representation of the Roman Soldiers.

The Tenth Window contains the Thirteenth Station, Mary holding the dead body of Jesus.  Her suffering is so deep that we are afraid to look.  The curved stairway from behind her leading to the left ends at the rock covering the tomb and the last Station where Christ is laid in the tomb.  Below the blue cross of the last station are two spears and the heads of the two soldiers guarding the tomb.  Green foliage separates this moment of intense sadness and pain from the early morning on Sunday when the three Marys come to the tomb carrying spices and ointment.  One drops her jar of spices at the sight of a figure in white asking why they are there.  He tells them that Jesus is no longer there, but has risen, leaving behind the burial wrappings and the little cloth that covered His face below the entrance to the tomb.  The Easter lilies and flowers are part of the celebration and joy of Easter.  The rainbow reminds us of the rainbow that God put in the sky at the end of the flood to tell Noah that he would no longer send a flood to cover the earth.  This rainbow reminds us that the covenant of God to send a savior is completed.

The last window is the Ascension of our Lord to sit at the right hand of God.  He is being drawn up by the two larger than life-sized hands of God, the Father.  In our Lord's right hand is an orb, a symbol of the world with a cross on it.  This is to remind us that he said, "Full authority has been given to me both in Heaven and on Earth.  Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Teach them to carry out everything I have commended to you, and know that I am with you until the end of the world."  His disciples are celebrating his life with them, even though there is sadness in his leaving.  The continuation of flowers indicates to us that we are living in a new time.  After the Resurrection, all things have become different.  In the last panel, proceeding from Jesus' left hand is a symbol of the gold light and the flames of the Holy Spirit, which He promised to send as a comforter to us that we might have his power and speak in the power of His name.  Below the disciples receiving the Holy spirit are the figures of the crowds hearing The Word, believing The Word, and becoming the beginning of the Church.