Praying with icons focus of six-week program

Clothed in Garments of Glory: Learning to Pray with Icons of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary will be offered at 10:00am on six Thursdays, beginning next week, August 13. The full schedule may be found at the end of this article.

Icons used for prayer, from the Greek meaning “image” or “portrait,” lead us through what we see into the mystery of the invisible. They visually express moments of sacred history, revealing their inner truth, and by representing the fullness of human nature at its point of contact with the world of divine grace give value to all human feelings, thoughts and actions, as well as the body itself.

In this six-part series we will explore the meaning and language of 5 icons of Jesus and the Blessed Virgin and the ways these images, if we allow them, can shape our prayer.

Join via Zoom Thursdays at 10:00am. All are welcome. REGISTER HERE

For more information, contact Fr Peter Helman.

Here are the details:

First Session (August 13) “In Him the Fullness of the Godhead Dwelleth”—An Introduction to the Meaning and Language of Icons

Second Session (August 20) “Made Without Hands”—Praying with Icons of the Holy Visage

Third Session (August 27) “Blessed Art Thou Among Women”—Praying with Icons of the Annunciation

Fourth Session (September 3) “Obedient Unto Death”—Praying with Icons of the Crucifixion

Fifth Session (September 10) “More Glorious than the Seraphims”—Praying with Icons of Our Lady of the Sign

Sixth and final Session (September 17) “Covered by the Waters of Jordan”—Praying with Icons of the Baptism of the Lord, or the Epiphany