Fr. Ihar Labacevich, priest at St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church, and I have started planning the program to co-lead a pilgrimage tour to Minsk, Belarus, Vilnius, Lithuania and Kyiv, Ukraine in late summer 2015. These places are Fr. Ihar’s native lands. We are including Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, because it was a […]
I recently completed the Interior Iconography Project at St. Stefan’s Romanian Orthodox Church, in South St. Paul, Minnesota. The interior project taking place during Great Lent was to adorn the arched wall above the iconostasis with an Icon of The Holy Face (The Holy Icon Not Made with Human Hands) along with angels flanking the […]
“The mysticism of icon painting is primarily solar, of such that word’s highest spiritual sense. However beautiful the sky’s other colors, may it be the gold of the midday sun remaining the color of colors and the miracle of miracles.” – Prince Eugene Trubetskoi
The Interior Iconography Project at St. Stefan’s Romanian Orthodox Church, South St. Paul, Minnesota The initial project will be to replace the icons of the 4 Evangelists in the pendatives. In the upcoming weeks we will be installing the icons of St. Matthew and St. Mark once scaffolding is moved to the other side of […]
Technical issues caused my web site to go off the grid. My web manager has created a temporary alternate home page which can be accessed at my same address: www.icon-art-studios.com along with my book page at: www.seeking-the-face-of-christ.com This new site is a work in progress but nearly complete. All previous information about the upcoming tour […]
From “A Discourse in Iconography,” by Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco Iconography began on the day our Lord Jesus Christ pressed a cloth to His face and imprinted His divine-human image thereon. According to tradition, Luke the Evangelist painted the image of the Mother of God; and, also according to tradition, there still […]
Christ is risen! THE PASCHAL TROPARION: Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life! PASCHAL HYMN TO THE THEOTOKOS: The angel cried to the Lady Full of Grace: Rejoice, O Pure Virgin! Again I say: Rejoice! Your Son is risen from His three days […]
Why have these four living creatures been used by iconographer’s to symbolize the four evangelists? The reason why: The man has been used as a symbol of Matthew may be the fact that he begins his Gospel with a long list of men, the genealogy of Christ according to the flesh. For Luke, the calf […]
The wonder-working Kursk Root icon of the Mother of God of the Sign will be brought to St. Mary’s Orthodox Cathedral (1701 5th Street NE, Minneapolis) on Wednesday, March 26 for veneration during the 9 am Presanctified Liturgy. This miracle-working icon is one of the most ancient and revered icons of Russia, dating to the […]