The Christchurch School (CCS) community celebrated Women’s History Month with a special service this week, which included the traditional Flowering of the Cross. The Flowering of the Cross is a western Christian tradition in which worshippers place flowers on a bare wooden cross, symbolizing the new life that emerges from Jesus’ death and resurrection. On Tuesday, the community placed flowers on a cross in honor of special women in their lives.
Mollie Brumfield, director of CCS’s Learning Skills Program, gave the homily. Many students said that they placed their flowers in honor of their mothers and grandmothers.
Flowers and herbs for the cross were provided by Seahorse faculty and staff from their own gardens. Christchurch School is an Episcopal school, one of six in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia along with St. Christopher’s School (Richmond), St. Catherine’s School (Richmond), Stuart Hall (Staunton), St. Margaret’s School (Tappahannock), and St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School (Alexandria).
