A quick note: I need at least $100.00 by April 30th to get a seat for the workshop, I imagine that it will fill up quickly, but that is the timeline as of now.

The following text was taken from Theology of the Icon, Volume 1.

Why does the Church attribute such a great importance to the icon?  The icon is not just a simple image, nor a decoration, nor even an illustration of Holy Scripture.  It is something greater.  It is an object of worship and an integral part of the liturgy.  The Church sees in its holy image not simply one of the aspects of Orthodox teaching, but the expression of Orthodoxy in its totality, the expression of Orthodoxy as such.  The icon is one of the manifestations of the holy Tradition of the Church, similar to the written and oral traditions.  As we shall see in our study, the "icon," according to the teaching of the Church, corresponds entirely to the "word" of Scripture.

So you might be asking yourself what does all this mean... that is a funny way to start off a blog entry!

Well you are correct sir or madam, but there is a method to my madness; namely that Master Iconographer Xenia Pokrovsky is actually going to be here in my neck of the woods along with Fr. Thomas Hopko, Dean, St. Vladimir's Seminary - retired.  These two luminaries of their respective fields being together anywhere that I could actually make it is a gift enough but in some divine strat