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Mose

Clouds are very important to people. When hiking in the mountains, it is possible to climb above low-hanging clouds. In the biblical scriptures, clouds veil and conceal, but are also signs of God's presence.

A pillar of cloud led the people of Israel through the desert. Again and again, God communicated with Moses in a cloud.

The old pulpit in St. Peter's Church was supported by the figure of Moses with the two tablets of the law. To this day, the 10 Commandments are one of the fundamental biblical texts of the Jewish and Christian faith. They describe man's attitude towards God and his fellow human beings.

Christ

On the pulpit from 1712, Christ stood on a towering cloud. As the victorious Christ, conqueror of death, he was depicted with a victory banner. The evangelist Luke tells us: "A voice came out of the cloud: 'This is my Son, him I have chosen. Listen to him!" (Luke 9:35). The Acts of the Apostles report on Jesus' ascension: "A cloud took him up, and he disappeared." (Acts of the Apostles, 1, 9) The figure of Christ lost both arms in the bombing of Dortmund in 1943.

Meditation

Christ has no body but yours. No hands, no feet on earth except yours. It is your eyes with which he sees - he suffers with this world. It is your feet with which he walks to do good. It is your hands with which he blesses the world. Christ now has no body on earth but yours.
Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

Evangelischer Kirchenkreis Dortmund

Sankt Petri - Faith