The Icon and the Face

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…the icon helps us to decipher every human face as an icon. For every human is an icon. Beneath all masks, all the ashes, every human being, however ravaged he or she may be by his or her destiny …carries within him or her the pearl of great price, this hidden face. During the liturgies in an Orthodox church, when the priest censes the people, he censes every individual Christian, and in every individual Christian he censes the possibility, the opportunity, of the icon, in some sense or other, the chance of the ultimate beauty, of true beauty.
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Quoted in Jean-Luc Marion: A Theo-Logical Introduction by Robyn Horner.
 
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Indeed we are the very Image and hopefully the likeness of God. All of us are Icons of God.
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I would not say that the face is the icon thte whole human being is an icon of the icon of God!

In Genesis we can read:

Let us make man according to our image !

According to our IMAGE ? Hmmm…the fathers said that this Image is Christ and God created all humans according to Christ- so every human person is created according to Christ, this is the reason why monks meeting one another are making a prostration, every time we meet a human beeing we meet an icon of Christ !

It is said that all humans have inside them -Christ and the Theotokos, Adam and Eve !

IN CHRIST
 
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