OUR LADY OF LITTLE COMPTON

This window is centered on an Icon of our Lady. It is modified in color and symbolic composition to remember Queen Awashonks, the last leader of the Sakonnet Indian tribe in Little Compton, Rhode Island, who refused to join the neighboring tribes in the King Phillip War against the colonists and made peace with the settlers.

  In this icon Jesus is depicted as a small man looking to his mother with love, teaching us to look - to pray to her with love and devotion that He gave to us as our mother in the order of grace. Our mother looks at us with tenderness and love ready to aid us in all our needs and to form us in her son’s likeness.  At the top of the window is a symbol of the Holy Spirit who works through Mary to bestow His gifts and fruits. Around the icon are seven fires like stars symbolizing the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. The twenty light blue beads symbolize the holy rosary an ancient contemplative prayer focused on the life of Jesus and Mary his mother while on earth and their glory now in heaven. The circles on both sides of the icon each contain two stars - the six-pointed star of the Old Testament and the eight-pointed star of the New Testament being the one word of God’s love for us in His beloved Son. The right bottom shield contains the official shield of the town of Little Compton. R. I. The left bottom circle contains the Immaculate Heart of Mary pierced with a sword as Simeon prophesied would take place at the crucifixion. On the central cross is the Eucharist signifying the ongoing sacrificial love of Christ on the cross and in the holy sacrifice of the mass. The icon and all the details are on a deep blue background that signify looking at Christ through the eyes of Mary.