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what are the specific rules regarding Icons in the east?
God Bless+ and the Virgin keep you

I have heard of tapestry icons and have seen some of beaten metal. There are various traditions for icons.

You may be interested in browsing these links as an introduction: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=ddr9pbdz_18c25xjs

Terry

thanks

Icons can be painted on wood, painted on glass, made from mosaic, embroidered, hammered out of metal... lots of different media!

Dave

Shlomo Alter Server,

Just an FYI, icons are never painted, the are written.

Poosh BaShlomo,
Yuhannon

thanks Chetc and thanks Yuhannon I had no idea

Are there icons at your parish?

My Joys, My Treasures,

Wasn't St. James The Apostle the first iconographer? I remember seeing an icon that was said to be one he had written. If that is true then how can a "follower of Christ" smash any icons and say they are idolitry such as the iconoclasts by the Salvation Army? Ignorance is bliss i guess.

In Him,
poor seraphim

Mosaics out of the beaten metal used to be fairly popular. The entry to my Ruthenian Church has them over the doors to the Sanctuary. Beautiful.

I'd like to see a return to Mosaics, but feel this is a lost art.

No Terry there aren't sadly I'm currently a RC so no Icons

I'm a RC and there is an icon at my parish, it's beautiful.

My Joys, My Treasures,

I have heard that RC is starting to embrace the dogma of icons as us OC. Even in the protestant churches and LDS you find pictures of Christ but no where near the teaching that an icon can.

Hey Terry, is the icon Byzantine or modern?

poor seraphim

Poor Seraphim,

It is an old icon, I don't know when it was written but I would venture it was in the late 1800s. It is Our Lady of Perpetual Help and is written in the Byzantine style with the exception of the crown. Of the pictures I've seen online the closest is this: http://www.olph.net/olph/olph.jpg

I don't know how many of my parishioners embrace the dogma of icons, but many people place candles in front of the icon. The side chapel can get pretty warm. I even caught my priest lighting a candle before the holy icon. I remained silent and prayed with him.

I find it spiritually invigorating to pray scripture before the icon after mass, I do that on weekdays when I can. I find that I cannot write on spiritual matters unless I enter into prayer. My imagination is so limited without grace.

Terry

yeah cool thanks guys

Stormshadow writes:

May I suggest a visit to the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Saint Sophia Catholicon on Via Boccea in Rome? The mosaics, done about 30 years ago, are magnificently breath-taking.

Fr. Serge