i know i dont have anything on you guys, but here is my start up icon corner. i will add more soon! its facing southeast. thats the closest thing i have to east.

(not sure why the pic is sideways...)

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Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

i want to get an icon of michael the archangel, who is my saint. i also really like the icon of the ladder.

and the pic i uploaded looks normal until i upload it here. in my other recent post (Theotokos Icon Help) it worked fine when I uploaded the pic. oh well. not a big deal.

ill post another pic when i get more stuff!

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Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

my icon corner, which is currently residing in my closet here at college. sadly I cannot have candles or use the censer, and technically I'm not allowed to use tacks, but I usually fill them in at the end of the year so they don't notice...

the closet already had the dresser setup in the little niche so I figured it'd be a good place. I'd use my eastern wall, but I would have to place my prayer books and stuff elsewhere.

I got most of my icons while in Greece. they were a lot cheaper over than than here in the US (well, they were absolutely everywhere in Greece, even in the supermarkets).

Here are a couple pics of my updated icon corner. Still simple, but im pretty content with it right now!

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Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

Isn't that the pribavlenie uma icon? It is for students, those with memory problems, and for those with mental retardation I think. It is one of my favorite ones. I guess it does kind of look like the Infant of Prague. Our Lord and Lady are both wearing cone-like dresses. I think it is beautiful.

« Last Edit: September 17, 2011, 03:54:07 PM by Ionnis »

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"If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.” -The Divine John Chrysostom

“Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.” -Anthony Trollope

Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

I appreciate your concern with not burdening me with things over my head, which might cause spiritual harm. However, I think I have some experience in this area, as I have been going sideways for about 6 years now

I appreciate your concern with not burdening me with things over my head, which might cause spiritual harm. However, I think I have some experience in this area, as I have been going sideways for about 6 years now

Haha. I'm with ya brotha!!

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Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

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Both are beautiful in each of their different approaches! How very lovely!

I was blessed to visit ST John's relics while visiting my son in San Francisco last February.I was able to attend the Moleban and venerate his relics. I brought back Holy oil from the lampada that is illuminating his remains. If you go to the website of the cathedral you can add prayer requests online, and order the Holy oil there. I am so richly blessed though...my son just arrived to help me through my next chemo round and he made a trip down there and brought me more oil! So thoughtful!

Your friend JAH has a real blessing in having had that icon written for him. It is truly brilliant!

but seriously, it does make the icons look great. i also like how everything is lower and closer together. looks good!

and Gypsy, my prayers are with you as you go through this next round of chemo.

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Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

LOL... The wall is white. The green is something to do with the lighting...

gotcha... well, either way it looks great!

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Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

Thinking about spending 200 dollars on the Theotokos and Christ icons...is this ridiculous?

Depends, I think. If it means you have to sacrifice, it's not a big deal. Or if you have that kind of money to spend just laying about, and if not for the icons you'd end up spending it on the Collectors Ultimate Greatest Blu-Ray Edition of something, then it's not a big deal. If you usually give alms, give to your Church, etc., and that giving would suffer because you decide to buy the icons, then that's a bit more difficult. If someone else would have to sacrifice so you could buy then, that's also a bit more difficult. Two other things to consider: $200 probably wouldn't even get you a small comissioned icon; and it's not about the dollar figure anyway, but more about if what you are getting is valuable and helpful to you.

I gave away most of my icons to family last year, though I did keep an icon of Jesus and my prayer books. The reaction to the gifts were interesting. My gram, for instance, seemed confused, because she already had religious pictures, so what did she need another one of the Virgin Mary for? My Father and stepmother each had a different reaction to the diptych I gave them. My Father, raised a Catholic, and also someone who has remarked positively about Orthodox icons to me before, was really happy with the gift; my stepmother was very confused who the lady was, and a bit embarrassed when it was explained to her. My Mother and stepfather were also confused, but in that Protestant, quasi-iconoclastic, "I don't know what to do with this" type of way. Anyway, so yeah, most of my icons were gone this year, and I haven't really had much money to start rebuilding. So for now this is what my icon corner looks like...

Interesting, are those paper icons by any chance (the ones on the shelf)? I ask because, as you can see, most of my icons in my prayer corner are paper icons.

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Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

I'm attaching my arrangement for the Holy 50 days in the main room. The other icons I keep in various places of my flat. The first reason is that some of them "belongs" to my mum (she's roman-catholic but she very venerates the holy icons), the second one is that some years ago I had an idea that it would be better for me that wherever I look at, I see the icons – just to not have bad thoughts. But now when I’m praying I don’t know where to stay in my room; I usually choose my Slava’s icon (which I’m attaching too) or for much longer prayers I sit before the icon of the Theotokos that I was given from my priest for my chrismation in the Orthodox Church (the third picture; there is also the candle I was keeping during the service). So, I’m planning do something similar as you did: one place for all church items (just buy a table under the Slava’s icon) and only for Nativity and Pascha arrange something in the main room. Now some my friends say that when they come into my room they feel like in a chapel

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