Guess who came to visit

[prodromos]

I took a day off work today so my wife and I, and one of our kids could attend the Liturgy at our local ROCOR skete here in Sydney, Australia, as we had a very special visitor.

She was also accompanied by Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America and New York, so we had our first hierarch serving Liturgy and a wonder working icon of the Mother of God, the Kursk Root icon.

What a blessed day!

 

[ArmyMatt]

praise God!

 

[RileyG]

beautiful!

 

[The Liturgist]

Is it possible to get a replica of this beautiful icon?

 

[prodromos]

Is it possible to get a replica of this beautiful icon?

Search for the Kursk Root icon

 

[The Liturgist]

Just to be clear, I am familiar with the Kursk Root Icon; I have not had personal contact with it unlike the Iveron icon however, which I have been blessed with myrrh from on a few occasions. I just wasn’t aware if it was an icon where one would commonly get a replica of it.

By the way, a stupid question, but why aren’t the faces visible in the picture you took @prodromos? I had thought maybe they had worn off, but the photograph on OrthodoxWiki clearly shows them.

 

[ArmyMatt]

Is it possible to get a replica of this beautiful icon?

yeah, they are pretty common

 

[prodromos]

By the way, a stupid question, but why aren’t the faces visible in the picture you took @prodromos? I had thought maybe they had worn off, but the photograph on OrthodoxWiki clearly shows them

Low light, no flash, and the actual icon surface is below the decorative cover which is also under glass, and my phone has a crappy camera

 

[The Liturgist]

yeah, they are pretty common

Good, now that I finally have one of St. Athanasius this might be a nice addition..

 

[ArmyMatt]

Good, now that I finally have one of St. Athanasius this might be a nice addition..

agreed

 

[The Liturgist]

By the way, I do have three Mercy Seat icons one of which is a diptych so there is no shortage of our Glorious Lady in my icon collection.

Indeed one of them I have venerated so much the paint is coming off…

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

yeah, they are pretty common

Hand painted though, right, Father?

 

[ArmyMatt]

Hand painted though, right, Father?

not always. you’ll see when you go to seminary

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

not always. you’ll see when you go to seminary

Six years left till I retire. I will be 55. Seminary is unlikely. Deacon? Maaaaaaaaaybe. And even that I doubt.

 

[ArmyMatt]

Six years left till I retire. I will be 55. Seminary is unlikely. Deacon? Maaaaaaaaaybe. And even that I doubt.

I knew seminarians in their 70s.

pfffft.

 

[ArmyMatt]

plus, there are distance and hybrid programs