This icon, was created
in 1997, the centenary year of the birth of Blessed Dina Belanger and
expresses, both in form and colour, some aspects of her spiritual journey,
which can be resumed in the words « It is not I who live, but Christ who lives
in me». (Gal. 2 :20)
The stages of Dina’s journey can be defined as follows :
SELF SURRENDER: expressed by the brown garment, a sign of renunciation of the world.
TRUST : The
word that can be read on the scroll is the synthesis of a life that allows
itself to be led by the Lord, through obedience, to the very end. Her
autobiography, a task that was, for her, the most costly of her whole life, is
a witness to the depth of the special mission that she knew she had been
given.
LOVE: The cross on
her breast says everything about the love that Dina had for Christ in His
Passion and her love for her Congregation, the monogram of which appears on the
cross.
THANKSGIVING AND PETITION : the right hand, raised in a gesture of petition, is an
expression of her prayer-life and the visible ear that of her willingness to
listen to all who confide in her.
COMMUNION IN THE
TRINITY : the three beams of light on her forehead
represent the path that Dina followed to the very center of the Trinity.
This other icon of
Blessed Dina Belanger was painted in 2010. Dina is presented with, in her left
hand, a miniature organ, a symbol of the
instrument that can render the purest spiritual harmonies, those which Dina
would, no doubt, have heard.
Her right hand, while
issuing an invitation to prayer, indicates Christ who offers her a cup « Do you
wish to drink from my chalice ? » It is the gesture of the Lover to
the beloved who will taste real joy.
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