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Wednesday December 20, 2000 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER B3 M illennium p ro je ctsat ch u rch e s By Darlene Jones SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER The worship committee at Munn's Church had a desire to do something special in the new millennium to mark Lent. They commissioned one of their own, Linda Shrive, an artist, to paint her perception of this sacred season. Munn's minister, Meg Grieve, who celebrates 25 years as an ordained pas tor this year, told Shrive to "paint from your heart." After a dry spell of two years Shrive, moved by this simple mandate, took up the challenge. She painted three separate works of arts, which she named the `Journey of Easter.' Her watercolour, titled `Palm Sunday' unveiled on Palm Sunday, rep resents one's mind, body, and spirit through a mass of intertwining palm leaves. An interplay of light and dark colours, warm and cool colours in all three of her paintings speaks of the bal ance in our lives. Shrive explains that "If one is off kilter, or not being nur tured, one cannot be at peace." She cre ates a peaceful design by having the sharp-edged palm leaves curve around each other, an effect, that also emanates a feeling of continuation. While there is a peace about her pictures, the artist also believes in using vibrant hues because for her, "it is about the vibran cy of life itself." In the second painting, unveiled on Good Friday, titled `Crucifixion,' Shrive's modernistic watercolour depicts the three symbols Shrive con siders crucial to this most solemn occa sion: Jesus Christ, the crown of thorns, and the cross. "For me," says Shrive, "Good Friday has always been a reminder of our darkest hours and the pain we cause others." She utilized simple lines and colour to depict that pain, not to frighten us. "I didn't want it dark," said Shrive. She creates most of the detail in Christ's upper arms and bowed head encircled with the crown. Darker hues around the cross focus the eye on the three symbols. Her use of progressively lighter hues towards the edge of the picture creates an ethereal effect "so that the body of Christ looks like it is half in one world and half in another," explains Shrive. Shrive's final picture, titled `Resurrection' created quite a stir on Easter Sunday with its mass of lilies. Aside from the fact that the lily often symbolizes Easter, Shrive wanted a plant that had the same type of leaf as the palm tree so she could repeat the leaf shape of the first picture in the final one of the series. "In addition, the whiteness of the lily represents the purity, of God and of Jesus," explained Shrive, "while the purple splatters to the right of the mass of lilies represents heaven and euphoria." Again, the artist has created a balance between the solid hues and shapes of the flower and its leaves with the splattered pattern reminding us of the balance we need in life in body, mind, and spirit. Munn's is among several churches celebrating the new millennium with special projects. Father Michael Mancusi and the parishoners of St. James Parish chose to install stained glass windows to reflect the refreshing of their faith in the new millennium. Father Mike, as he is best known, laughs when he explains that it all started when the sun blazing through the sanctuary windows on Sunday morning blinded him. A small commit tee hired Josef Aigner of Artistic Glass in Toronto to create three windows measuring 12 metres high and 1.5 metres wide with beautiful designs that would no longer blind anyone. When they were unveiled for Pentecost of 1999 the parishoners applauded. Aigner created simplistic designs for each of the three windows. The Holy Spirit window, symbolizing our entrance into the new Pentecost, is mostly purples and blues to denote liv ing in the power of the Holy Spirit. At the bottom of the frame the artist incor porated the Bamabite symbol "since the parish has been in the hands of the Bamabites since its foundation," says Father Mike. He goes on to explain that "the central window of the Eucharist was chosen because the centre of our spiritual life is the celebration of the Eucharist." (See `Members . . . ' page B 4 ) Photos by Barrie Erskine (top) and Peter C. McCusker (left). Artist Linda Shrive and Darlene Jones, Millennium projects co-ordinator for the Community Foundation of Oakville are reflected in `Crucification' one of the paintings at M unn's Church. AT LEFT: Jones and Father Michael Mancusi in front of a Millennium window at St. James Church. 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