God said, “Let there be Light” – not light from a source, but rather, light in itself. In our Icon writing, we use symbols to testify to God’s presence.

Considered primarily as a work of worship and secondarily as a work of art, Icons are the visual Theology of the Church. Stemming from the Greek word, eikona, meaning a likeness profile or a figurative representation – an image.

Icons are not craft, not art; it is a liturgical method and a ministry.  The catechism states, ‘Christian iconography expresses in images the same Gospel message that Scripture communicates by words.’  This is the reason that painting an Icon is properly referred to as ‘writing.’  An iconographer is a writer of images.  I meditate on God’s Word and pray to worthily portray the holy word in image.

A depiction of Christ, the Mother of God, a Saint, an Angel, or depictions of the historical events in the life of Christ and the life of Saints.

Iconography offers a window to the heavenly realm, opening the Light of God’s Word to our minds and our hearts, revealing hope and a manifestation of Divine presence within us. When you pray and look at a blessed icon, you invite the Holy Spirit to come to you, and you know that God is near.