Dove of Peace Figurine

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The Dove of Peace Figurine is a simple yet lovely piece from a monastic community of nuns in France. This simple design evokes some powerful images: the Spirit of God at creation, Noah’s ark and the flood of destruction, and the descent of the Spirit “as a dove” at Jesus’ baptism. The dove has become the primary visual symbol of the Holy Spirit. This biblical richness makes the Dove of Peace Figurine such a great gift for young people being confirmed. This is a gift of heirloom quality that will be cherished and preserved for many generations to come.

The Dove of Peace Figurine – A Pure Labor of Love, Hope, and Faith

The Dove of Peace Figurine stands 4.25 inches tall and is composed of dolomite stone and resin. A religious community of cloistered sisters designs, molds, and hand-finishes every figurine in their monastery atelier in France. Each religious sister prayerfully completes a particular task required for the final rendering of each figurine. Where, how, and by whom the Dove of Peace Figurine is made means that each and every figurine is indeed ”culturally authentic” and a pure labor of love, hope, and faith!

The Dove of Peace – A Powerful Biblical Image

The Dove of Peace Figurine evokes powerful biblical images that span the entire Bible. At the beginning of creation in Genesis 1:2, God’s Spirit hovered over the waters, dark and deep. In Genesis 8:11, the dove returns to Noah’s ark with an olive leaf in its beak – an encouraging sign that the waters of destruction have receded. The same Spirit that hovered over the waters in Genesis comes down “as a dove” upon Jesus as he comes up out of the waters of the Jordan river (Matthew 3:16). Just as the dove of Noah’s ark augurs new life in God’s creation, so too does the Spirit’s descent “as a dove” onto Jesus augur a new creation, new and eternal life, for all of humanity in Jesus the Anointed One.

Genesis 8:1-17

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible. After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven,and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

Then God said to Noah, “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”

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