One of our younger altar servers said to me the other day, 'I like the lamb on the altar frontal, it is sort of cute!' Well I suppose it is!It is only during Eastertide that we use an altar frontal - and the Lamb of God is a perfect image to have on the altar in the Chapel of the Resurrection.
At the Lamb's high feast we sing
Praise to our victorious King:
Who hath washed us in the tide
Flowing from his pierced side;
Praise we him whose love divine
Gives the guests his blood for wine,
Gives his body for the feast,
Love the Victim, Love the Priest.
The self same server (who attends Holy Trinity, Brompton) was asked, along with the other children at HTB, how they could show that they loved God. He said 'we could offer Him a Lamb.' What an answer! Small wonder he won some pop corn!!
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