When the sanctuary wall of St. Gerard’s church had to be replaced, the need became an opportunity. Church members planned a simple kind of stained glass windows. The abstract design is rooted in our understanding as Christians of the great truths of the death and resurrection of Jesus as depicted by artists through the centuries.

The windows were inspired by a station of the cross in an ultra-modern church in Umbria and a stained glass window in a small chapel near Grenoble by a French artist known as Arcabas.

Thecentre-panel mosaic of coloured blocks suggests a hill—Golgotha, with the central cross of Jesus and the two smaller crosses of the thieves.

The strong line extending from the left panel to past the crossbar of the centre panel prompts thoughtsof the reed that held a sponge filled with sour wine in response to Jesus' “I thirst,”the spear used to wound Jesus’ side to prove He was dead, anda ladder to take the body of Jesus down from the cross.

The dominant circular shape at the bottom of the centre and right panels anchors us in the reality of the empty tomb, the resurrection, and the eucharistic body of Christ.