LOOK: Light Shower by Bruce Munro
For Christmas 2010, Salisbury Cathedral commissioned a site-specific light installation from multimedia artist Bruce Munro. Called Light Shower, the piece consists of an invisible wire matrix suspended from the ceiling above the transept, from which dangle hundreds of optical fibers lit with tiny LEDs. As the title implies, they look like drops of light descending like rain.
LISTEN: “The Light Came Down” by Josh Garrels, on The Light Came Down (2016)
There is a light
Bright star shining
In the dark night
Old tales come trueAll of our fears
Hopes and prayers
He has heard
And answered usThe light came down
Cast the darkness away
He appeared
A helpless child
The light of God came downThere is a light
A new day dawning
Old things pass
All things made newProphets have spoken
All he would accomplish
When the light of God
Would dwell with menThe light came down
Cast the darkness away
He appeared
A helpless child
The light of God came to save us
To the world that he made us
O Lord and Savior
Alleluia
This is the final post in the 2023 Advent series (daily Christmas posts will follow through January 6). View all the posts here, and the accompanying Spotify playlist here.
Art & Theology 
This series has been lovely. Thank you.
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thankyou very much for your comments about gendered language in song. Of course we do understand historical reference to “man” (while rejecting the sociocultural underpinnings of that). However I do draw the linear a song published in 2016 referring to humanity as “men”. O Tempora! O Mores!
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