A font is a fountain, an emblem of the pool of water that makes an oasis life giving and refreshing.

The font is green—the color of growth and growing things. This is a reminder of the life-giving aspect of Baptism. The font is white—the green stem supports a bowl that suggests the bud of a flower. The meaning of the flower is found in its octagonal shape—the days of Creation plus the day of Baptism, the day of first day in a new life adoption by God.

The symbolism of the font does not end with its color and shape. There is also the exceptional cover. The cover includes three triangles—symbols of the Three Persons of the Trinity—and there are three circles which insist on the unity with God's reality

And the pomegranate? The baptismal font's pomegranate links affirmations from the New Testament with ideas from Exodus (39:24-26).

I Peter 2:9 describes the entire baptized community as a "royal priesthood," people marked and set apart for God's service. Exodus describes the vestments of the high priest, noting that they are to include pomegranates woven from "violet, purple and scarlet stuff and finely woven linen." Including the pomegranate design in the baptismal font relates the New Testament teaching to an Old Testament image.

The pomegranate has other symbolisms: It represents the Church—its many seeds suggesting the great crowd of faithful people in heaven and on earth. Again, the pomegranate's long-lasting color has allowed it to be a symbol of "deathlessness" and, therefore, of eternal life—another of the gifts given in baptism.