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The gift of God – The Blessed Virgin Mary
To the left is the newly-written icon of the gratuitous gift of the Holy Trinity to mankind: the Blessed Virgin Mary as Our Lady the Protectress; deified Mother of Jesus Christ, Queen of heaven and...
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The Icon of the Divine Heart of God the Father – More apologetics – 1
“Visible icons are the seeing of the invisible. They are products and representations by visible images of divine traits and ineffable and elevated contemplations” (Dionysus the Aeropagite). “God...
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What is the icon of the Father’s Heart? – Thought for the day
“Visibility of the invisible, this portrayability of the unportrayable, is what the icon is” (Bulgakov).Filed under: God the Father, The Icon of the Divine Heart, Thoughts for the Day Tagged:...
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Why is an icon wonder-working?
You work wonders through created things, O Lord, while men have lost the gift of wonder working. You take fire and water for Your servants, while people refuse to serve You. To wood and metal You give...
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Small icon of God the Father
Just completed a small, portable icon (right) of our Almighty Father. Dimensions are 20cm x 30cm. Materials are wood with linen and natural gesso, 23.5 kt gold leaf and natural egg tempera. I...
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Created Beauty – My icons
Have a look at Created Beauty, the new website for the icons I finally let myself be persuaded to start writing and showing. To the left you can see a snapshot of it with the icons I have written so...
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Reopening the heart of our souls
When illumination occurs, it is the heart, the eye, of our souls, or as some call it the “eye of the heart,’ that is reopened to see the inner principles – logoi - of things, including spiritual...
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On the icon of the Divine Heart
Why have we been given the icon of the Divine Heart of God the Father – an icon of a heart and Person generally invisible in nature, in comparison to the incarnate Son of God who visibly took on our...
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The drawing for the icon of Our Lady of Longmeadow
This is the original pencil drawing (right) for the revealed icon of Our Lady of Longmeadow. The writing of the actual icon is presently in progress.Filed under: Icons, Mary Tagged: Christianity,...
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The icon of Our Lady of Longmeadow
The new icon of Our Lady of Longmeadow has just been completed. It will be blessed and installed in its intended home at Saint Mary’s Parish Church, Longmeadow, MA later next month. This is a revealed...
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Notice – The icon of Our Lady of Longmeadow
The recently completed icon of Our Lady of Longmeadow has now been featured in the Christian Artwork, Christian Theme Artwork, Madonna, Premium FAA Artists and Women Painters galleries at Fine Art...
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Notice – The icon of the Divine Heart of God the Father
The icon of the Divine Heart of God the Father Encompassing All Hearts has now been featured in the Christian Art and Christian Theme Artwork galleries at Fine Art America.Filed under: God the Father,...
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On venerating the icon of the Divine Heart of God the Father
“The veneration of icons by the Church is like a lantern and the light from it has never been extinguished. It will continue to burn, as it has in the past; but its is not motionless . . . And even...
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Why an icon not a painting?
“The wider significance of the events portrayed [in the icon] has to be worked out in the soul of those who behold the icon; what the icon represents may have been manifested at a precise point in time...
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Why an icon not a painting? – 2
“At all levels – the artistic, the spiritual, the political and the domestic – icons reveal a profound concern for the integration and inter-relationship of the spiritual and the material, the sacred...
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Why an icon not a painting? – 3
The symbolic language of the icon is “incomprehensible to the sated flesh, to the heart full of longings for material things. But it becomes the very fabric of life when these longings collapse and an...
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The Icon of the Divine Heart featured in Cannuli’s Approaching the Divine
Filed under: God the Father Tagged: Divine Heart, God the Father, Iconography, Icons
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God the Father icon in Approaching the Divine – A Primer for Iconography
The diptych ecumenical icon of the Divine Heart of God the Father Encompassing All Hearts has just been featured in the newly released book Approaching the Divine – A Primer for Iconography by the...
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How the icon will save the souls of humankind and restore Christianity
What are icons? Icons are sacramental avenues of divine grace that struggle in our times both for the Church and for the faith, in a similar, albeit inverse, manner to when the Church struggled for the...
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The theophanic ministry of the icon and the restoration of souls
The theophanic ministry of the icon (as different from a religious painting) leads to the restoration and return of souls to their Creator and Father not just by its intrinsic beauty, which both leads...
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