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Jabez L. Van Cleef takes foundational texts from many oral traditions and religions and creates a common poetic format to preserve, promote and disseminate the values of these cultures. His work also promotes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other frameworks intended to foster full realization of human potential. Find out more at www.sustainyourspirit.com. Four Liturgical PlaysChristian Allegorical Festival Plays with Animal CharactersBy Jabez L. Van CleefElaborating on the traditions of medieval bestiaries, these liturgical plays attempt to characterize various animals according to some of the virtues and vices that humans have grown to associate with them. This approach helps in retelling three of the formative stories of Christian belief: the birth of Jesus; the "Passion" narrative; and the descent of the Holy Spirit into the Apostles; so that these stories can be better understood by children. For example, in "Gifts and Creatures," the Passion story, each of seven animals is identified with a "deadly sin," and, because of a generous contribution to the advance of the story, is able to transform the sin into a corresponding virtue. Thus the Woodpecker, who extracts the nails that were used to crucify Jesus so that his body can be brought down from the cross, transforms his greed into generosity.
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