Icon corner

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There are a few similar threads floatnig around, but I’m always glad to see another.
How about sharing yours?
Nothing spectacular about mine, trussed up for Spring:

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Ohhhh! I love that cross!

Mine was sent to me from a friend who sells a lot of Ukrainian things on eBay, like this one.
 
I just ordered a copy of the Theotokos of Vladimir. I can’t wait to get it. 6x10"

Right now all I have is a made in China St. Jude and a couple of bookmarks 😛
 
WetCatechumen said:
I just ordered a copy of the Theotokos of Vladimir. I can’t wait to get it. 6x10"

Right now all I have is a made in China St. Jude and a couple of bookmarks 😛
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Oooh…you mean like this one? NICE!

http://www.monasterygreetings.com/productimages/item1664_virgin_icon.jpg
I want something similar, like Virgin of Volhynia . Unfortunately, I tend to have a little “nook” in every room and wouldn’t know where to put it without displacing everything else.

So far, I have an Irish corner, a Ukrainian corner, an French-Canadian corner, and a Vietnamese Corner, hee!
 
The embroidered towel in Ukrainian is called a “rushnyk” and it is used for many ceremonial/religious purposes, from covering the icons to being used to bind the bride and groom’s hands together in a wedding to covering the tray used to greet a bishop when he visits.

The covering over the icons has numerous analogical origins including the shroud over our Lord, the swaddling clothes at his birth, the protective veil of the Mother of God, etc.
 
Miserissima said:
Oooh…you mean like this one? NICE!

http://www.monasterygreetings.com/productimages/item1664_virgin_icon.jpg
I want something similar, like Virgin of Volhynia . Unfortunately, I tend to have a little “nook” in every room and wouldn’t know where to put it without displacing everything else.

So far, I have an Irish corner, a Ukrainian corner, an French-Canadian corner, and a Vietnamese Corner, hee!
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I’ve always known this Icon as “Our Lady of Perpetual Help.” As we speak, it currently adorns the left side altar of our Latin Rite, Ordinary Form Parish (fortunately, all they did after VII at our parish was to remove the altar rail, add a “versus populum” altar, and put in carpeting - side altars and high altar remain fully intact :)).
 
JaMc said:
I’ve always known this Icon as “Our Lady of Perpetual Help.” As we speak, it currently adorns the left side altar of our Latin Rite, Ordinary Form Parish (fortunately, all they did after VII at our parish was to remove the altar rail, add a “versus populum” altar, and put in carpeting - side altars and high altar remain fully intact :)).
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OLPH, also known as Our Lady of the Passion or Fearsome Protection shows angels holding instruments of the Passion. The Divine Infant has a loose or missing slipper.

OL Vladimir is a variant of the type called Sweet Kissing (Glykophilousa).
 
Cluny said:
OLPH, also known as Our Lady of the Passion or Fearsome Protection shows angels holding instruments of the Passion. The Divine Infant has a loose or missing slipper.

OL Vladimir is a variant of the type called Sweet Kissing (Glykophilousa).
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O.K. - just found OLPH on another website, opened up a new browser window, and can see the difference when looking at them side-by-side.

They do look very similar, however.
 
Hello,

I like the idea of this Icon Corner. Your photos of them, and what you are thinking of displaying, are intriguing! Is it allowed, or recommended in Western Catholicism? Is it like a focus for all your prayer, maybe sort of like a home altar? (without the Eucharist of course!)

thanks,
👍
 
SecretBeliever said:
Hello,

I like the idea of this Icon Corner. Your photos of them, and what you are thinking of displaying, are intriguing! Is it allowed, or recommended in Western Catholicism? Is it like a focus for all your prayer, maybe sort of like a home altar? (without the Eucharist of course!)

thanks,
👍
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Yeah it sort of is.
 
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