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A baptism-shirt is a new religious piece of
clothing.
It is a linen shirt worn under the usual clothing and directly worn on
the
body/skin. On the shirt you find a symbol that refers to the baptism,
to Christ or to the faith. The shirt reminds the person who
wears it every
day of his/her faith in and connection with Christ.
It
represents the fact that you have 'put on Christ' (Galatians
3,27) when
you have been baptized.
The shirt is hidden. It’s worn under
the clothing. It
visualizes your personal commitment to God - and nobody in the world
has
anything to do with that. In the Bible priests wear linen clothes.
Jesus lay in
his grave in linen bandages. That’s why the shirt is made of
linen: it gives
you something priestly ant something sacred. Sometimes silk is also
used for
the shirt, because baptism is also valuable.
Baptism-shirt 'Light' Baptism-shirt 'Light' (Back)
You wear your
“baptism-shirt” whenever you want. During a divine
service or at
a difficult moment in your life or perhaps daily. You needn’t
be baptized in
it. On this web-age some shirts are
shown, made by the textile-artists Marijke
Jager and Jeannette de Wilde who worked closely together. They wanted
to show
the possibilities a baptism-shirt offers and which
associations it
recalls. Besides these, shirts are shown that youngsters from
Heerenveen made for themselves.
Baptism-shirt 'Connected'
Water-Baptism-shirt
albe
of a priest
little tallith
A Roman Catholic priest wears an albe during
mass
celebrations. That’s a long white undergarment. In the Roman
Catholic tradition
the albe is associated with a morally pure way of life. On the albe you
won’t
find a stain, the person wearing it should be equally pure. A baptism-shirt should be made by the person who wants to wear it. In this way you can choose the symbols from the christian tradition that appeals to you. We worked with youngsters who 'invented' their own symbols. The baptism-shirt threngthens the christian identity.
Petra Teijema-de Jong:
“Day and Night” with sun, moon and rock
(Petra)
and confession text. Henk de Vries: “The
jigsaw”-
pieces of my life, with the symbols of belief, hope and love.
You can find more
pictures of the Baptism-shirt (or baptismal shirt) here:
at
the website of Marijke Jager
and here: Protestantse gemeente Oegstgeest |