THE YEAR OF THE PELICAN
Sunday School and Bible Classes at Christ the King in 2015
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What's with the Pelican?
Guillaume le Clerc [13th century CE] (Bestiaire): The pelican is a wonderful bird which dwells in the region about the river Nile. The written history tells us that there are two kinds, those which dwell in the river and eat nothing but fish, and those which dwell in the desert and eat only insects and worms. There is a wonderful thing about the pelican, for never did mother-sheep love her lamb as the pelican loves its young. When the young are born, the parent bird devotes all his care and thought to nourishing them. But the young birds are ungrateful, and when they have grown strong and self-reliant they peck at their fathers face, and he, enraged at their wickedness, kills them all. On the third day the father comes to them, deeply moved with pity and sorrow. With his beak he pierces his own side, until the blood flows forth. With the blood he brings back life into the body of his young. ( Kuhns translation) |
Click the mother pelican above to learn more
Throughout the Middle Ages and beyond the pelican was a symbol of Jesus Christ, who "was wounded for our transgressions" and "pierced for our iniquities" yet gave His own blood so that we might be nourished unto life everlasting. The Pelican reminds us of the action of Christ in the Eucharist as He says "This is My Body, given for you; this is My Blood, shed for you."
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As the Pelican feeds her children with her own Body and Blood, so this year in our Sunday School and Bible Classes we remind ourselves that we are fed and nourished through the Word and Sacraments of our gracious and loving Lord Jesus, who gave Himself that we may live.
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Adult Bible ClassSunday mornings, 9:30 am
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Women's Bible Studies
Monday evenings, 7 pm &
Wednesday mornings, 9:30 am.
Wednesday mornings, 9:30 am.
