Akathistos

I just purchased this tiny icon on ebay for about a dollar. Isn’t it beautiful!
I’ve placed it on the windowsill above the kitchen sink so that I will remember to pray while I wash the dishes every day.

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Every night before bed, we say our prayers with our son and he kisses his icon of Christ. A few nights ago, he was holding the icon and said, “Mommy… my Jesus.” He then wanted to take “his Jesus” to bed with him. So I tucked him into bed holding his icon [...]

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At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a little child and had him stand among them. And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of [...]

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It is ironic that on Judgement Sunday (meatfare), as my husband and I were talking in bed, I spoke about one of my “worst” (or most frequent) sins: judgement (of myself and others). I have a serious problem with this. I have always been one of those people who will base my [...]

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This is a neat website. Definitely check it out when you can!

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Our one year old son loves to kiss icons. He kisses the icons at church and loves to kiss the ones at home.
However, yesterday he did something really funny.
He pulled books off of his bookshelf, kissed each one, and then put it back. He was evening kissing CD cases. It [...]

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We ordered this icon last week from Skete.com.It was even more beautiful then I thought it would be. The quality of the icon is better than any of the others icons that we own. I highly recommend using this website to order icons.

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The most pure Temple of the Savior;

the precious Chamber and Virgin;the sacred Treasure of the glory of God,is presented today to the house of the Lord.She brings with her the grace of the Spirit,therefore, the angels of God praise her:“Truly this woman is the abode of heaven.”
When the Virgin Mary reached the age of three [...]

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If you haven’t noticed yet, I love icons. This is very ironic because one of the things that I struggled with most about the Orthodox Church was the icons.
Growing up, I was always under the impression that any likeness of Christ could not be correct, and, therefore, it was unbiblical/unchristian to have images [...]

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