You have to figure everything out, the composition,' Jurewicz said. 'At the beginning it's an act of creativity. The feasts celebrating the great events in the life of Christ are on the ceiling and the saints are on the walls. He follows a hierarchal pattern established in the Middle Ages. The process is very difficult at the beginning, but then it gets increasingly easy and more rewarding.' 'I've learned how to avoid accidents on scaffolding,' he said, 'to put things up so they don't fall off. Jurewicz used a scissor lift to reach the high points. 'That got everyone's attention,' Trbuhovich said, gazing up at the commanding figure. It was the first image to appear and made believers even out of those in the congregation of 350 to 400 people who had been reluctant toward change.ĭetails: From top to bottom, every space is seen covered in vivid colors thanks to the reverend's careful paintbrush which depicts hundreds of figures in the timeless Byzantine style Traditionally, it would go in the dome if a church has one. 'Some people said this is the way our church should look.'Ī 16-by-16-foot icon of the face of Christ occupies the center of St. 'On other occasions to use icons, we would show pictures of traditional churches covered in icons,' he said as walked through the nave, which he said represents the cosmos transformed. 'We use them to communicate with the person in the icon. 'We don't worship icons, we honor them, we venerate them,' Trbuhovich explained. One of Jurewicz's mentors, a monk named Father Cyprian Pyzhov, had done some work in the Lackawanna church in the 1960s. Rastko Trbuhovich, who has been there 28 years, said church leaders had casually talked about such a project for years before finally moving forward to raise funds for the $160,000 undertaking. we use them to communicate with the person in the icon' Then He, who is all-knowing and all-powerful, is said to have taken a strip of cloth, and pressing it to His face, to have left His likeness upon the cloth, which it retains to this day.'We don't worship icons. If this were refused, they were ordered to have a likeness painted. ] Commentary.-If, then, it be rational that we are led to the divine vision by sensible images, and if Divine Providence mercifully clothes in form and image that which is without either for our benefit, what is there unseemly about imaging, according to our capacity, Him who graciously disguised Himself for us in shape and form?Ī tradition has come down to us that Angaros, King of Edessa, was drawn vehemently to divine love by hearing of our Lord, and that he sent envoys to ask for His likeness. Spiritual minds form their own spiritual conceptions, but we are led to the divine vision by sensible images. Those sensible symbols lead us naturally to intellectual conception, to God and His divine attributes. We supply by the variety of sensible symbols the visible order, which is according to our own measure. Now, if the substances (ousiai) and orders above us, of which we have already made reverent mention, are without bodies, their hierarchy is intellectual and above sense. The Same, on the “Ecclesiastical Hierarchy.” Forms are given to what is intangible and without shape, and immaterial perfection is clothed and multiplied in a variety of different symbols.Ĭommentary.-If it be a good work to clothe with shape and form, according to our standard, that which is formless, shapeless, and without consistency, how shall we not make images to ourselves in the same way of things perceived through form and shape, so that we may bear them in mind, and be moved to imitate what they represent. On the one side, through the veiled language of Scripture and the help of oral tradition, intellectual things are understood through sensible ones, and the things above nature by the things that are. Instead of attaching the common conception to images, we should look upon what they symbolise, and not despise the divine mark and character which they portray, as sensible images of mysterious and heavenly visions.Ĭommentary.-Mark that he cautions us not to despise sacred images.
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