I love the way the Altar Guild women do this one with flowers and pearls and a lace table-cloth. In the past they've included a china tea-cup and saucer and a lace handkerchief. I find the femininity of it very moving every year.
This little display also reminds me of a scene from the novel, Christie, in which a woman places one of her aprons in her husband's coffin just before he is buried. I don't know I find that act so moving, but I do.
It was the women who prepared Jesus' body for burial and were there first thing on resurrection morning to finish the job. God bless 'em.
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