North Aisle Arcade: Christ’s Life
At the sixth window, as if it was a line of text, let your eyes jump back to just
below the first window where the life of Christ begins. Each window should be meditated on
at leisure if possible, for every one is a sermon in and of itself.
Annunciation and Nativity.
Temptation, cleansing of the temple, wedding at Cana, Preaching from the boat.
Three healings: Lame, Blind, Leper. Feeding the multitude.
Peter sinking, Transfiguration, stilling the storm, entry into Jerusalem.
Having reached the brink of Christ’s crucifixion, our eyes can jump across to the
two windows above the altar that occupies the “Marquand Transept.” The left window depicts
the passion of Christ, and the right window the entombment and resurrection. These should be
read upwards, beautifully reflecting the ascending movement of a priest raising the
consecrated bread, which occurs directly in front of these windows every weekday
afternoon of the academic year for Catholic Mass.
The Passion of Christ.
Entombment and resurrection.
