Hooked on Icons?

By Julie McCarty

Over the past decade, I have become hooked on icons.

The first time I fell in love with an Eastern Christian icon was when a seminary professor explained the symbolic meaning of Andrei Rublev’s “Icon of the Trinity.”

Everywhere I go these days, I see Eastern Christian icons making their way into Roman Catholic quarters. There are icons for sale in Catholic bookstores. Parishes are purchasing icons for their worship space. I have even heard of Catholics learning iconography, the sacred task of creating icons. If Roman Catholics are going to embrace this ancient spiritual art, I think it is important for us to …

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