“You look into a mirror so that you may know what is in your face, whether there are any blemishes in it, and having seen the blemishes, you cleanse them. Let the pure life of Christ be a mirror to…

“A ploughman plows a field, does he not repeat this action again and again? How else would the field be tilled if he did not repeat this action from dawn to dusk, deepening furrow after furrow? A traveler goes along…

“The Lord combined melody with prophesy so that everyone would sing holy hymns with total diligence while they are being carried away by the smooth flow of verses. Nothing rouses or inspires the spirit, nothing releases it from the earth…

“My desire to paint [write] icons coincided with my seeing in the church an artistic expression whose content visually brought to life what I prayed, believed in, and strove for all my life” Iconographer John Lickwar, The WORD Magazine, June,…