Icons

Icons – God with us in our Homes

19 May 2009

As Christian Education coordinator, I have had the opportunity to visit the parishes around our diocese and I have been welcomed into many homes. At almost every home, the focal point has been their ...

Images of the Good Shepherd : Icons or not?

04 May 2009

In recent years in the Orthodox Church, what has been termed by some as a “new” icon has emerged, and become very popular with many people. It is an icon of Christ the Good Shepherd. All one has to ...

An Icon As an Image: Direct and Reverse Perspective

14 December 2008

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As has already been mentioned, an icon is a window facing the holy, sacred world which opens to a person looking at the icon. Space in that world has properties different from those of the space on ...

The Skull on the “Russian” Orthodox Cross

20 November 2008

The skull that viewers can see in iconography of the orthodox crucifixion symbolically represents the skull of Adam. Some believe (although this is not a dogma of the Orthodox Church, but rather a ...

Embracing Love

19 August 2008

The “More Spacious than the Heavens” icon is very prominent in an Orthodox church., perhaps because it expresses some of our Faith’s core beliefs, principally the willingness of our Mother, the ...

Icons: Symbolism In Color

05 March 2007

(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

An introductory discussion on the symbolism of colors in icons Byzantines considered that the meaning of art is beauty. They painted icons that shined with metallic gold and bright colors. In their ...

Symbolism of Colors in Icon

25 May 2006

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Colour plays a special role in icons because it is a symbolic language which manifests the light that is inside objects and human faces rather than their colouring. The source of this light is ...

Why do we need icons?

21 November 2005

The Second Commandment expressly forbids images of anything, not only of God but of anything at all. We need to ask ourselves the question why this is the case

Icons Differ from All Other Art in Its Mysticism

13 January 2005

Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann

We do not have to be experts in art to tell at a glance that the art of the icon is radically different from any other art form. An icon seeks to make visible the borderline between heaven and ...

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