The Sunday of Orthodoxy and the Meaning of the Holy Icons We Venerate Give Me A Word
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On the Sunday of Orthodoxy, we remember the restoration of the veneration of the holy icons within the Orthodox Church in the 8th century, after decades of bloody iconoclasm. Yet this first Sunday of Lent is not called the “Sunday of Icons,” points out Fr Vincent Temirov. This is because the theology of the icon summarizes everything that the Church teaches about the person of Jesus Christ. The icons are also symbols of the glory of the kingdom of God, holy images that help us meet the community of the saints in prayer, and a blessed reminder that we are supposed to strive to follow Christ in the way we live, to be living icons of him and to see his image in all the people around us.
On the Sunday of Orthodoxy, we remember the restoration of the veneration of the holy icons within the Orthodox Church in the 8th century, after decades of bloody iconoclasm. Yet this first Sunday of Lent is not called the “Sunday of Icons,” points out Fr Vincent Temirov. This is because the theology of the icon summarizes everything that the Church teaches about the person of Jesus Christ. The icons are also symbols of the glory of the kingdom of God, holy images that help us meet the community of the saints in prayer, and a blessed reminder that we are supposed to strive to follow Christ in the way we live, to be living icons of him and to see his image in all the people around us.