From the day of His birth, Jesus was destined to die on our behalf. To accomplish his work as Savior, Jesus offered his body and blood as a sacrifice for us and by accepting that sacrifice we find salvation.
In the words of our Post Communion Prayer:
“Eternal God, Heavenly Father, you have graciously accepted us as living members of your Son our Savior Jesus Christ, and you have fed us with spiritual food in the Sacrament of his Body and Blood. ...”
Thus, it is fitting that the Savior, at the start of his life, would be placed in a feeding-trough as a sign not only of who He is, but of how He will fulfill His purpose and effect our salvation.
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Krippe
Es ist erstaunlich, wie eine unbedeutende Sache wie eine Krippe, eine Futtertrog für die Tiere, kann so eine wichtige Bedeutung haben. Lukas erwähnt der Krippe drei Mal, und dies ist die bekannteste: ". Und sie gebar ihren ersten Sohn und wickelte ihn in Windeln und legte ihn in eine Krippe, denn sie hatten sonst keinen Platz für sie in der Herberge" ( Lukas 2:7)Vom Tag seiner Geburt, Jesus war dazu bestimmt für uns zu sterben. Um seine Aufgabe als Erlöser zu erreichen, bot Jesus seinen Leib und sein Blut als Opfer für uns und durch die Annahme dieses Opfers finden wir Erlösung.In den Worten unseren Abendmahlgebetes: "Ewiger Gott, Vater im Himmel, du hast uns gnädig als lebendige Glieder deines Sohnes unseres Erlösers Jesus Christus angenommen, und hast uns geistige Nahrung im Sakrament seines Leibes und Blutes zugeführt ... "Somit ist es passend, dass der Heiland am Anfang seines Lebens in einem Futtertrog plaziert wurde als ein Zeichen nicht nur dafür wer Er war aber auch wie er seinen Zweck erfüllen und unser Heil bewirken wird.
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Hope to have the pattern written in a few days. I need daylight for the pictures to be good.
updated 12/27/2015:
And here is the PDF "Manger" for you to download.
Please do not sell the patterns of the ornaments. If you give them as gifts, please always include the explanation of the symbol.
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I
am also a lacemaker and am working on what I have dreamed about for
quite some time:
the
Chrismons in Lace Series.
This
is a design by Brigitte Bellon. She is incredible generous and
allowed me to share her pattern here with you for your own personal
use PDF “ Manger “
Here
is my finished lace for my Advent calendar:
5 comments:
Mrs. Christa,
I just wanted to ask you if you have your Manger pattern finished yet, We would like to make this Chrismon for our church.
Thank you!
Andrea, sorry I was overwhelmed with things to do. Writing a pattern is not a 5 minute job. If you send me an email (my address on every pattern) I will send you what I have so far. I like it when somebody tries it first before I publish.
Merry Christmas
Do you have the pattern for the bead manger? taradew@hotmail.com
Tara, as you can see in the above blog ... the pattern is posted. Sorry that I didn't see your question earlier. Hopefully you found it by yourself already (so many things were going on in my life as it is with many these days). Christa
The link to the beaded pattern seems to be broken. It won't download.
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