Spiritual impulses
Spiritual impulses
Exhibition of crosses in the St. Martinus church in Olpe (May - June 2023)
Raimund Hellekes exhibits 15 crosses:
With the exhibition KREUZGANG, the viewer embarks, as it were, on the path of confrontation with the actually non-representable of the crucifixion of Jesus in its radical reality, connected with the salvation-historical significance of the death and resurrection of Jesus and the reflection of this experience by believers of different generations.
Raimung Hellekes, born in 1950, is a master carpenter and ran the family business in South Sauerland from 1976 - 2016, which is now managed by his son. For him, wood is a living material; he is passionate about tracing the stories that wood tells and would also like to share them with others.
Photos: Simone W. Drolshagen
Meditations: Olper Franciscan Sisters, Sr. Caja Steffen
The path to God:
The path is steep.
Many steps lead to the top,
Step by step we get higher.
Sometimes the path seems endlessly long and arduous,
Sometimes we stop to catch our breath.
Sometimes we look down to see how much we have already accomplished
- only to be surprised afterwards at how much is still missing.
On the way up it is easy to stumble,
on the way down, it's easy to fall;
getting up is laborious in both cases.
It requires strength and endurance
- and the unconditional will to get even higher.
The goal, however, is clear
- Christ awaits us with open arms.
He rewards us for all our efforts.
In His light we see the light.
