Monastery Icons at Parish

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This question is specifically for those that know about the infamous Monestary Icons,
if you don’t its best not to search it up and know that they’re a pseudo Orthodox group that mixes in hindu pagan beliefs with Christianity and prays over them before they ship it.

Okay so theoretically what if, for a while now, my parish had a bunch of these icons scattered about?
 
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Have the priest conduct a minor excorcism, have them blessed and then use them in the spirituality of the parish.
 
I never heard of this, where did you get this information about that company?
 
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Danger of Monastery Icons Eastern Catholicism
I am Roman Catholic but, my church uses incense from Monastery Icons. I have heard that items from them are cursed or “blessed” using occult rituals. (See:orthodoxinfo.com/general/monasteryicons.aspx) I am concerned that the using this incense may cause trouble and I feel that I need to warn my priest. Any thoughts?
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You could talk to a priest and/or someone who take care of the church and tell them the origin of these things, then maybe you could come up with a solution.
 
Fr. Nelson’s interesting report about this outfit doesn’t so much arouse anxiety about potential spiritual dangers as it tells the entertaining life story of a bunch of (apparently) hippies who came away from Woodstock in 1969 having made up their minds to spend the rest of their lives as dropouts living on the fringes of society and earning their crust of bread by peddling spirituality-lite, under one label or another, to anyone naive enough to be taken in by it.
A Word About 'Monastery Icons'
 
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I’ve bought some lovely religious items at the Dollar Tree or WalMart, rosaries at a Protestant book store, other rosaries at a Dollar store, the seller really has nothing to do with the way I appreciate the item.

Also, there are many other places offering icons for sale, are you certain they were purchased from a pagan source?
 
It matters if there’s spiritual danger. If there were no reports of hindu prayer over them then I’d be fine

And the resemblance of art syle is uncanny if not identical to the icons, especially of those that normally aren’t iconographied
 
Explain your point of view to those responsible and add some research to your claims, allowing others to see and understand what they have in hands.
 
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they’re a pseudo Orthodox group that mixes in hindu pagan beliefs with Christianity and prays over them before they ship it.
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That’s not a fair description.

They’re not pseudo-orthodox, or any other form of Christian (although they went through a psuedo-“Orthodox” phase with they’re cult leader a couple of decades, but not in conjunction with any actual Orthodox group).

They’re a pseudo -Hindu cult.

For those demanding information, google
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"monastery icons" site:byzcath.org
for more than you can digest. It’s been hashed over time and again there.

And those pictures they sell are not icons, even though they may superficially resemble them.

Icons are not paintings, they are “written” pursuant very specific rules with prayers that one would have to be Christian to make any sense. They are prayers in their own rights, which distinguishes them from religious art and statutes, and when we reverence them, it is to join in the prayer.

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It matters if there’s spiritual danger. If there were no reports of hindu prayer over them then I’d be fine
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Do you research every product that you purchase? I’m fairly certain that I buy things from businesses owned and staffed by folks around the world. There is a good chance that somewhere in that chain is a non-Christian religious person or persons who pray over their work, same way that I pray over the items I make for sale, I pray that the people who use them will be blessed and that they will have peace in their lives.
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And the resemblance of art syle is uncanny if not identical to the icons, especially of those that normally aren’t iconographied
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Just a few from an Amazon search

https://www.amazon.com/Christ-Teach...d=1545403744&sr=8-12&keywords=religious+icons

https://www.amazon.com/Religious-Gi...d=1545403744&sr=8-14&keywords=religious+icons

From some Catholic web stores

https://www.aquinasandmore.com/catholic-gifts/nativity-of-the-lord-icon-15th-century/sku/13478


Our parish had a sale from a mission that supports the Catholic Church in Russia, they brought so many of the “Icons”, I have the exact same image pictured here that was made in Russia:

Virgin Mary Icons: Our Lady of Perpetual Help Icon | Monastery Icons

Monastery Icons specialized in traditional Christian icons including those of Our Blessed Mother, such as this Our Lady of Perpetual Help icon. Order now.
www.monasteryicons.com
 
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