Thursday, February 19, 2015

Icons...going towards Great Lent...


I got out our first Lenten icon... 


The one with the deep blue border.


St. Ephraim the Syrian.
It's from a calendar, a friend cut them out for me years ago
and I bought some coloured paper at at art store in Ottawa
and got the frame at the dollar store on Bank Street 
years ago now and my Ottawa spiritual father blessed it...
Icons, as I've said before, do not need to be expensive 


After being here since late May,
last week I finally found our Guardian Icon again.
So very glad.
Don't know if I showed you our new to us St. Nicholas icon
from Holy Dormition Monastery.
It's a copy of a larger copy of an icon that is in one of the
guest house rooms (each room has it's own Saint) and
this room was the first one I was ever in
when I stayed my first time over night, back in 2004 I think.
I remember sitting on my bed and just looking at this icon...


St. George, such a wonderful Saint!
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I still don't get my lampadas lit everyday these days,
but I always have some lit and we do what we can.
Soon I will be getting out our other Lenten icons...
Lent begins this Monday!

9 comments:

Lisa said...

I also like St. George.

Nancy said...

Have a blessed Forgiveness Sunday and first week of Lent everyone! And please pray that I recover from this cold (I'm laying on my couch right now feeling miserable) quickly so I can sing and chant for all the services.

elizabeth said...

Lisa, isn't St. George wonderful?

Nancy, so sorry. Rest. Remember that no one is expendable and best to just get better. Will light a candle for you today!

Elizabeth @ The Garden Window said...

All the icons are lovely, but I have to say that your St George is <3

Nancy said...

Thanks for the reminder and the prayers! (sometimes one should fast from feeling indispensable, but I'd also like to fast from feeling miserable)

elizabeth said...

Nancy, welcome! I do hope you feel better soon! I am learning in a lot of ways how expendable I am; not in that I don't feel valued but that I am never the 'all' that some one needs and it's quite freeing...

Nancy said...

So very true, not only does everything not depend on you, but often there's someone else who's better equipped to handle it. That's the part that can be harder to accept at times.

elizabeth said...

Nancy, yes, agreed. But there's a lot of freedom in it and we hope growth towards humility...

Heather said...

what a beautiful collection of icons! You've made such a reverent space for them too. St. Nicholas is one of my very, very favorites. I recently found an icon of "Our Lady of Perpetual Help" at an antique store and it had a faded sticker on the back that said it had been taken to Rome and touched to the original. I thought that was so special!
Love all your icons!