Need Icons (NOT MONASTeRY ICONS)

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Found out my icons from a heretical group. I need new ones. I would like to find some nice one that do not cost too much. Thanks for your help. I hope you are have a holy time during the bright sadness of Lent.

Glory to Jesus Christ.

John
 
The blessing of a Priest should remove any taint of heresy or residual willies from your icons.

However, you might want to consider St. Isaac of Syria Skete.

www.skete.com

They have a bigger selection, greater variety of styles and schools (all of Monaster Icons look alike), and better quality.
 
**trinitystores.com**

I just checked their images under A.

Some of them might be nice pictures, but they carry the productions of Robert Lentz and Bridge Builders.

These are NOT icons, but bridges built to hell (as one real iconographer put it).

There is more to iconography than mere technique. They are expressions of the Faith of the Church.

The very fact that Robert Lentz would do imitation icons of Saint Albert Schweitzer, or Albert Einstein shows that he is using iconographic technique to express his own opinions, not the faith.
 
bpbasilphx said:
The blessing of a Priest should remove any taint of heresy or residual willies from your icons.
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bp_,

Do you apply this to Monastery Icons as well? What would your take be regarding a Latin Rite Catholic displaying Monastery Icons a)unblessed by a Latin Rite priest, and b)blessed by a Latin Rite priest.

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VC
 
A priest’s blessing should be sufficient, but I’d still be uncomfortable praying in front of it; I’d probably print one I found online and frame it if money was a prob. Better yet, I second the recommendation of www.skete.com - you won’t be sorry about anything you get from there- great quality and selection.
 
Do you apply this to Monastery Icons as well? What would your take be regarding a Latin Rite Catholic displaying Monastery Icons a)unblessed by a Latin Rite priest, and b)blessed by a Latin Rite priest.

I was thinking SPECIFICALLY about Monastery Icons when i said this. I realize they have a rather spotted reputation (to put it sweetly), but any spiritual taint they have will be removed by the blessing of a priest, be he Latin, Melkite, Chaldean, Orthodox, or Non-Chalcedonian.

Many say that it is not necessary to have icons blessed; their sanctity derives from their prototype (as St. Basil says), and the prototype of all holiness is God Himself. It is a pious custom in many places, however, to have icons blessed by placing them in the altar area of an Orthodox (or Byzantine) Church for a while, or having the traditional prayers of sanctification read over them. (A custom I prefer to follow.)

Obviously, no such blessing should be given until after they are sold.

However awful they might be artistically (and they look terribly cartoony to me), the products of Monastery Icons at least are based on traditional prototypes.

Lentz’s pictures, OTOH, are NOT. His “St. Martin Luther King”, “Christ the Liberator”, “Madonna of the Oppressed” and the like are at best political statements; at worst prelest (spiritual delusion) in paint.
 
JPUSC said:
Does it matter that skete.com is an Orthodox store and not a Catholic one?
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No. The Catholic Church considers the Orthodox, Both Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox (aka Non-Chalcedonians), to be fully valid churches with true sacraments and faith. Communion could exist with most tomorrow if they felt the same way in return.
 
bpbasilphx said:
I was thinking SPECIFICALLY about Monastery Icons when i said this. I realize they have a rather spotted reputation (to put it sweetly), but any spiritual taint they have will be removed by the blessing of a priest, be he Latin, Melkite, Chaldean, Orthodox, or Non-Chalcedonian. . .
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bpbasilphx,

Thank you for sharing your insights.

One more question, if you don’t mind – or perhaps you can direct me to an internet or text source that might discuss this:
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bpbasilphx:
However awful they might be artistically (and they look terribly cartoony to me), the products of Monastery Icons at least are based on traditional prototypes.
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Do the icons of more modern saints / saints which may not be recognized in the East follow traditional prototypes? In other words, is there a “generic” (not in an impious sense) icon type for “a saint”, upon which all Monastery Icon’s icons of saints are based?

Thank you very much.
VC
 
I too would STRONGLY recommend the works of St. Issac Skete - skete.com/

Very high quality and made by a wonderful believing community. They are Orthodox and have had some changes in their “jurisdiction” (things a little political and because of their very, very, very traditional understandings). The monks have an open house - once a year. Absolutely fabulous to see the skeet and to get a taste for how they live and pray. These are very Holy men. To see how these men live their lives in prayer make one envious.

One disappointment (at least for me) was that the icons are made by a “business” run and staffed by employees and lay community members. In several trailer parked on the property of the skeet, the lay people make and sell the icons. It is very much a small factory run for the benefit of the monks - - but certainly none of the work is done by the monks. The actual monastic community is five or six in number (the factory is 10 or 15 - I would guess). The only real connection between the production of the icons and the monks is 1) head monk tours the facility daily and 2) one of the monks actually hand writes a few icons (but not the ones for sale to the general public).

I guess I was disappointed becasue I wanted to think these wonderful images where actually created by the monastics. Perhaps that is naive.

None-the-less . . . the quality is first class, the variety is huge, and the people involved are very spiritual. These icons are a blessing.
 
Eastern_Guy said:
Here’s a good site with icons.

I’ve bought from here myself. religiousicons.com

These icons are from Greece and truly beautiful workmanship.
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I personally hate it when people fake “age” icons to try and make them look “antique”. Firstly, it never looks real, secondly- is it supposed to make them more “spiritual” or something? "Oh wow, is that icon 400 years old? Oh no, I was fooled there for a second. " :rolleyes:
 
Patrick1982 said:
I personally hate it when people fake “age” icons to try and make them look “antique”. Firstly, it never looks real, secondly- is it supposed to make them more “spiritual” or something? "Oh wow, is that icon 400 years old? Oh no, I was fooled there for a second. " :rolleyes:
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Ummmmm…huh??? The antique looking icons aren’t meant to be more spiritual than others. That’s obviously your perception.
 
bpbasilphx said:
The blessing of a Priest should remove any taint of heresy or residual willies from your icons.

However, you might want to consider St. Isaac of Syria Skete.

www.skete.com

They have a bigger selection, greater variety of styles and schools (all of Monaster Icons look alike), and better quality.
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I sure hope more people understand that.
 
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