My church, St. Ignatius Orthodox Church, has completed the first part of a lengthy iconography program. Here’s a wonderful time-elapsed presentation of the work behind the altar. In time, it will look something like this church. It took Fr. Theodore Jurewicz six years to properly adorn St. Stephen Orthodox Church in Lackawanna, New York. The results of such efforts, as one monk commented, are “not like Rembrandt. It’s other worldly.” The icons are “supposed to transport you to another dimension,... Read more