Our Lady of Perpetual Help because we had a large screen print copy of the Eastern icon in our home, that our mother had received as a gift when she entered the Church, and to whom she had a great devotion.
The Rublev Holy Trinity for my personal devotion. A sister gave a talk during one of the Steubenville conferences on the Trinity, and used this icon as an illustration. The talk was transformative in my own understanding so I sought out and purchased a reproduction.
I donāt care for most modern icons but look for reproductions of classical ones to whom I have an emotional response.
I found one in an antique shop I bought because I thought it was OLPH and it ālooks oldā, looks as if painted on stiff paper glued to the wood backing, and the quality of the gilt is still good. But the Child is facing the Mother, unlike the more familiar OLPH reproduced above where the child is looking away. There faces are not touching as in the one I have heard called the sweet kiss, and his right hand is raised in blessing and he holds something in his left hand I canāt make out, help anyone? The colors are mostly the same but there are also no angels.
Also how do you practice prayer with icons?
