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I just got a new camera, and used my church for practice. Enjoy!

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The photos. [flickr.com]

I'm having a hard time getting the pic to embed here. Just follow the link.

A very impressive church. I like the iconography and especially the iconastasis.

Fr David Straut

Are many of the churches in your Eparchy so, well..., umm..., Orthodox looking? I really mean no offense to anyone by asking. It's just that in my limited experience, here in New Jersey, this is not the case.

Fr David Straut
St Elizabeth the New-Martyr Orthodox Church
Rocky Hill, New Jersey
www.saint-elizabeths.org [saint-elizabeths.org]

Father David, there are many EC parishes that have succeeded in looking more true to their patrimony. There are a good many in the midwest that would make a byzantophile drool.

Am I right in my thinking that Father Thomas wrote these Icons?

I'm not sure who *wrote* the original icons. Was it Pseudo-Athanasius who *wrote* the photographs of them?

Why is *wrote* written as *wrote?*

I took the photos. Fr. Loya painted them. Well, he didn't paint the photos, of course. You get my meaning.

EDIT: He didn't paint them all. I think the iconostasis is from Eikona. The wall murals are his.

For some reason, when I replied I didn't have the little editorial boxes above my post (as I do now) and so I used the asterisks to denote italics (which I would have preferred to use). The use of "wrote" for painting icons is a pet peeve of mine, but c'est la vie many people think it is the proper terminology. No offense intended, Dr Eric.

Fr David

Down in Texas ours certainly are.

BTW, these make excellent desktop wallpaper. Added all but the "tall" images to my wallpaper cycle.

Mr. P-S,

Did you get any pictures of the "Harrowing of Hell"?

CDL

I am Ukrainian Orthodox (PC); we use the term to "write icons" in English because I am sure as you know being in a Russian jurisdiction, the verb written is used in Slavic languages.
Icons are among many things the Gospel in symbols and colours.
Thus, the Word of God is presented with the help of the Holy Spirit.
For example see the Kontakion of the Sunday of the Triump of Orthodoxy:
"The indefinable word of the Father made Himself definable, having taken flesh of Thee, O Mother of God, and having refashioned the spoiled image to its former estate, has suffused it with Divine Beauty. But confession slavation we show it forth in deed and word."

Anyone who spoke of painting icons in our church or community would immediately be corrected. This is a long standing tradition and is correct for Slavic Orthodox.

In fact, when I left home to go to university I was surprised to learn from Greek Orthodox students that in their tradition they do speak of "painting icons".

Orest

I tried, but I didn't like how they turned out.

Father Bless!

I was under the impression that one writes an Icon instead of paints an Icon. I thought that this is part of the Theology of Iconography versus Picture Painting.

Your Unworthy Son,

Dr. Eric