A call to put Easter crosses in windows as rainbows spread hope brightly across UK
This Sunday is Palm Sunday and many people will miss the blessing and distribution of palm crosses at churches, they traditionally mark an important day in the Christian calendar at the start of Holy Week. Due to the UK coronavirus lockdown preventing people from going to church or meeting with anyone else outside of their household, one bishop is encouraging Christians to get creative in response to the situation.
The idea was inspired by the pictures of rainbows that have started appearing in windows up and down the country as a symbol of hope and positivity during lockdown. Thousands of homes in the UK have displayed them, and they are often drawn by children and stuck on windows so people on their daily exercise can see and be encouraged.
Bishop of Blackburn Rt Rev Julian Henderson, has encouraged homes to make a cross and place it in their window, leaving it there throughout Holy Week.
The rainbow is the sign of hope and of God’s promises and covenant, displayed visually through his creation.
In the Bible, the presence of a rainbow was a message from God, God said: “I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth” (Genesis 9:13).
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