Tag: Icons

  • Marian Icon Lecture

    Marian Icon Lecture

    Marek Czarnecki returns to Saint Meinrad for another week of work on icons for a portable iconostasis. He will be offering the following lecture Monday night, April 19, at 6:30 CT, available by live-stream: “Mary, the Mother of God in Icons: From the Catacombs to Today.”

  • The Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord in Iconography

    The Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord in Iconography

    The first lecture will be Monday, March 22, 2021, on “The Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord in Iconography,” beginning at 7:00 pm CT. The live stream/recording link is here.

  • Sacred Word, Sacred Image

    Sacred Word, Sacred Image

    In this time of Eucharistic fast, it is helpful to remember the ways that Christ is present to His Church. He is not only in the Eucharistic species, not only in the gathered assembly, not only in the person of the priest, but also in the sacred Word. Because Jesus is “the Word made flesh,”…

  • Six Days of Creation Icon Painting Workshop

    Six Days of Creation Icon Painting Workshop

    This past week I worked with iconographer Anna Gouriev at a Hexaemeron icon painting workshop hosted at Diakonia Retreat Center in Salem, South Carolina. Another track, on icon carving, was led by Jonathan Pageau. For those not familiar with the traditional Russian process of icon painting (or “writing”), it is a prayerful time of transforming…

  • Icons

    The Holy Spirit speaks to us through sacred art.

  • Notes from abroad

    My wife and I are just recently back from two weeks in Poland and Ukraine. I would like to share some impressions cursorily, and one at some greater length.