Icon writing?

[Deltadeliquent]

I am a Roman Catholic but not in good standing with my Church. I cannot change this without blowing up my life, and the life of my husband whom I love very much. It is about him not being baptised and the lawful nature of his previous marriages. A huge kettle of fish…
Anyway,

I want to learn to write icons, and I wonder if an icon written by someone like me…a real believer, but not canon lawfully straight with the Church, is OK. I mean will it be less effective? Or would buyers possibly turn away if they knew?

I know icons are used in the Roman Church too, but since the tradition is greater in the Eastern Church, I thought I would ask you guys.

 

[NeedImprovement]

Personally , one of the most thorough pieces I’ve ever read on icons and icon writing came from Brother Aidan at this EWTN link . . . guaranteed to enhance one’s knowledge and understanding of icons:

ewtn.com/library/HOMELIBR/SACICON.TXT

 

[theistgal]

I am a Roman Catholic but not in good standing with my Church. I cannot change this without blowing up my life, and the life of my husband whom I love very much. It is about him not being baptised and the lawful nature of his previous marriages. A huge kettle of fish…
Anyway,

I want to learn to write icons, and I wonder if an icon written by someone like me…a real believer, but not canon lawfully straight with the Church, is OK. I mean will it be less effective? Or would buyers possibly turn away if they knew?

I know icons are used in the Roman Church too, but since the tradition is greater in the Eastern Church, I thought I would ask you guys.

It would depend - would you be writing them for your own personal devotion, or to donate to your church, or to sell? The intention matters a lot.

Also, FWIW even if they were acceptable to Catholics they would not be acceptable to the Eastern Orthodox. (I say this because just this morning I was reading a thread about this in an Orthodox forum.)

 

[Joe_Kelley]

Regarding your marriage. If your husband has never been baptized, it would be worthwhile to inquire about a Petrine Privilege to dissolve his previous marriage. [We had success with a somewhat similar case when I was running our RCIA]

Don’t take someone’s off-hand opinion on this. Get an opinion from someone familiar with the Tribunal processes in your diocese.

 

[Deltadeliquent]

I am his fourth wife. Im the fourth. I know, I know…
If his first marriage means that the other two were not valid, and it would, I could make a case that our marriage is OK since the first is now dead. He is technically a widow.
So if that is the case and nothing needs to be done regarding his marriages after the first one, then maybe we could be convalidated.

If not, then I can not really ask him to do anything about them as he is not religious at all. I can’t see that my Church has any jurisdiction over someone who is not baptised and has no religious beliefs at all.
I’m pretty sure he would go for a convalidation for me, but I doubt very much if he’s up to doing anything about the previous marriages.

As it is I am not in good standing because of this.

I’m really a tapestry weaver and am mostly interested in using icons to jump start tapestry designs. And I wouldn’t mind having/ selling some of the actual icons too.

 

[BusterMartin]

IAlso, FWIW even if they were acceptable to Catholics they would not be acceptable to the Eastern Orthodox. (I say this because just this morning I was reading a thread about this in an Orthodox forum.)

For my own curiosity, what would make them unacceptable from an Orthodox viewpoint?

 

[SyroMalankara]

The maximum marriage/divorce allowed to an Orthodox laymen, even in the most liberal jurisdictions, is three. A “fourth marriage” would never be allowed.

 

[theistgal]

For my own curiosity, what would make them unacceptable from an Orthodox viewpoint?

The Orthodox generally prefer the icons they use for veneration (especially within their churches) to be made by other Orthodox.