Economically priced, this handsome reversible Red/White and Purple/Green Bookmark, Pulpit Scarf, and extra-large Communion Table Runner Parament Set offers excellent construction; each piece will retain its shape and beauty for years to come, and features machine embroidered gold-colored symbols on 100% polyester polyfaille, strengthened with interlining, and is finished with gold-colored fringe.
Set of 6 includes: one of each in red/white and in purple/green—bookmark, 3 1/2" x 36”; pulpit scarf, 18” x 36”; extra-largeCommunion table runner, 20” x 108”.
Bookmarks for each color combination feature cross image.
The purple side features Trefoil IHS and Cross image; the green side features curved IHS image.
The red side features Cross and Crown image; the white side features Latin Cross image.
Care Tips. . .
Dry clean only.
Did you know. . .
Paraments are the linens and cloth hangings used on communion tables, altars, pulpits and lecterns; they “clothe” the central furnishings in the chancel. The colors of the paraments reflect the traditional colors of the seasons of the Christian year, and are changed as the seasons of the Christian year change. Often they are embellished with specific symbols appropriate to the particular season.
The cross is one of the earliest and most widely used Christian symbol. In the most broad sense, it symbolizes the religion of Christianity. More specifically, it represents and memorializes Christ's death. A great variety of crosses have developed, some with specific symbolic meaning and others that have simply become culturally associated with certain groups.
The letters “I H S” are a symbol for the name of Jesus. In the Greek, the first three letters of Jesus’ name are “ihv,” which in english is “his.” It is said that many early Christians, possibly in keeping with Jewish traditions, refused to write the names ‘Jesus” or ‘God’ in full so they used symbols or contractions instead. IHS or IHC is drawn from the first three leters of ‘Jesus’ in Greek.
