Dear Icon Writers, Glory be to Jesus Christ! 2015 icon class sessions at St. Mary’s GOC and Basilica of Saint Mary have come to an end. May God bless your future studies. Congratulations on the creation of your icon, for each and every icon was truly beautiful! May the journey in writing/painting your icon continually invite you to enter […]
From “A Discourse in Iconography,” by Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco Christianity is the inspiration of the world. Christ founded His Church in order to inspire, to transfigure the world, to cleanse it from sin and bring it to that state in which it will exist in the age to come. Christianity was […]
Transcendence Revealed by Jane Merriam de Vyver How dare we Break into Divine Silence With our arrogant noise When the beauty Of a song, a dance, A flower, an icon- Like the glee Of a child at play- Says more than All the world’s wise words So solemnly pronounced
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
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 […]