On Iconic Vision

On Our Will to Seek God and God’s Wil... On Reaching the Middle of the Fast

On Iconic Vision

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“The present life is a wrestling school, a gymnasium, a battle, a smelting furnace, and a dyer’s house of virtue” – St John Chrysostom

Wednesday, March 11th, 2015

Wednesday of the 3rd Week of Great Lent

Dear Ones

Blessings.

On Iconic Vision

In using images to overthrow the power of images, the icon seeks to disrupt habituated ways of seeing, to subvert the hegemony of naturalistic representation, and so summon the eye to a new mode of vision, by opening it up to infinite depth. God is not a finite object that ewe can hold within vision, but an infinite mhstery, an inexhaustible personal plenitude that always has something more to reveal to us in an endless transformation from glory to glory.

Monk Maximos (Constas) The Art of Seeing: Paradox and Perception in Orthodox Iconography

This Sunday is the Third Sunday of the Great Fast on which day we keep the Adoration of the Precious Cross

The Serra Cross on Mt. Rubidoux in Downtown Riverside

Archbishop Cordileone of San Francisco under Vicious Attack

https://www.lifesitenews.com/petitions/i-stand-with-archbishop-cordileone/452436

Please sing this petition in support of Ab Cordileone.

Gay activists and SF politicans are leading the slanderous campaign against Ab Cordileone, and his opponents have actually hired a notorious (infamous, in fact) PR firm in SF to destroy his reputation and foster outright mutiny.

Where is the separation of church and state folks?

Number of Abortions Down 5-Fold in Russia Since the Fall of Communism

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=24218

March for Marriage in DC April 25th!

Nice Orthodox promotion of the annual March for Marriage with resources – at http://www.crownthem.org