Take a little water, add a bit of dye, and stir in some sawdust.
Mix it around with your hands to get the color good and even.
Spread it on tarps to dry in the sun.
Do it again and again.
Create a palette of different colors.
And wait to see what another can create.
A beautiful sawdust carpet!
Ready for a Corpus Christi Eucharistic procession.
The simple act of service in helping dye sawdust can turn into a beautiful temporary work of art that becomes part of a day that honors the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ.
O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament have left us a memorial of your Passion, grant us, we pray, so to revere the sacred mysteries of your Body and Blood that we may always experience in ourselves the fruits of your redemption. Who live and reign with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, on God, for ever and ever.
~The Collect
May your Solemnity of Corpus Christi be blessed!
(The last two photos are courtesy of my friend who made the carpets)
