Icons-where can I purchase good ones?

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It is my understanding that the appropriate way to dispose of a blessed icon is to burn it.
 
I wonder, where would be a good place to buy icons of Western saints?
 
So is it the official teaching of the Catholic Church that Hinduism is an evil religion and that they worship “devils”?

Well - according to this document posted at EWTN,
"While it is important to root out relativism it is also opportune to address the tendency on the part of some Christians towards exclusivism, polemics or towards “having nothing to do with Hindus”.
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“There are fundamental differences between the Christian faith and Hindu beliefs. Differences. however, need not be perceived as a threat; they can, in fact, become occasions for mutual understanding.”
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You are certainly free to reject doing business with Monastery Icons for any reason, but accusing them of being “evil and unchristian” because some of the owners/operators are Hindu seems a bit uncharitable. :rolleyes:
 
theistgal said:
You are certainly free to reject doing business with Monastery Icons for any reason, but accusing them of being “evil and unchristian” because some of the owners/operators are Hindu seems a bit uncharitable. :rolleyes:
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Well, they are Hindu. Is it wrong to call them unchristian then?

They also deliberately misrepresent themselves as Christian, and of all things, as ‘Orthodox’, despite repeated corrections and publicity on the issue. Is that wrong too? 🙂
 
theistgal said:
So is it the official teaching of the Catholic Church that Hinduism is an evil religion and that they worship “devils”?
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I don’t recall anybody mentioning that they worshipped devils. Could you point me to that post?
theistgal said:
You are certainly free to reject doing business with Monastery Icons for any reason, but accusing them of being “evil and unchristian” because some of the owners/operators are Hindu seems a bit uncharitable. :rolleyes:
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Well, they are Hindu. Is it wrong to call them unchristian then?

They also deliberately misrepresent themselves as Christian, and of all things, as ‘Orthodox’, despite repeated corrections and publicity on the issue. Is that not wrong? 🙂
 
Filii_Dei said:
I don’t recall anybody mentioning that they worshipped devils. Could you point me to that post?
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I apologize; no, I did not see those words in this thread. I have seen that statement made elsewhere, though, in similar discussions about Monastery Icons.

And FWIW I agree it’s wrong for them to misrepresent themselves as Christian if they’re actually another religion. However, I don’t think it’s wrong to venerate icons that have been made by nonChristians, simply because they are nonChristians - if they’ve already been blessed.

Of course, if they haven’t been blessed yet, all bets are off and you can trash 'em.

And btw, I do highly recommend www.skete.com anyway, their icons are a lot more beautiful for one thing. 👍
 
theistgal said:
So is it the official teaching of the Catholic Church that Hinduism is an evil religion and that they worship “devils”?

Well - according to this document posted at EWTN,

You are certainly free to reject doing business with Monastery Icons for any reason, but accusing them of being “evil and unchristian” because some of the owners/operators are Hindu seems a bit uncharitable. :rolleyes:
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Butheway, they are not actual Hindus but, rather, a gnostic occult group. orthodoxinfo.com/general/monasteryicons.aspx

One of the basic understanding of Icons is that the artist writes them and they contain the theology of its author. There are canonical Icons and non-canonical Icons. This is why, traditionaly, the Byzantines do not purchase them from non-Christian groups. Also, it is unChristian to intentionally try to deceive people. They have relocated and renamed their parent organization among other things to make it harder to find out the truth about them.
 
RyanBlack said:
It is my understanding that the appropriate way to dispose of a blessed icon is to burn it.
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Yes by burning. Images which have been defaced, damaged or are in other ways unsuited for veneration are burned.
 
I think I purchased a cross from them as well, although it seems to have been made by another company. Don’t tell me I need to burn the cross…:eek:
 
EIF5A said:
I think I purchased a cross from them as well, although it seems to have been made by another company. Don’t tell me I need to burn the cross…:eek:
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Burning Icons (even Crosses) that you are disposing of is a very traditional Byzantine practice. If they are merely selling another companies Cross, that might be fine to keep. Do you have a link to the product?
 
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