New Icon of Christ Pantocrator

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“One of the most powerful things is to walk into the church and your eyes are drawn up. You see Christ, looking down. Christ looking down as the one through whom all things were created, in the dome of the cosmos, as it were," said Father David.

The new icon is a gift from Bessie Zgourides. She is an accomplished iconographer with 25 years of experience in the medium, which she views as a discipline rather than an art.

“When I’m writing icons, or painting, the idea is that God is working through us,” Zgourides said. “The first icon was painted by St. Luke — Mary and Christ as a baby. We don’t really sign (the work). If we were to sign it, it’s ‘through the hands of,’ so the emphasis isn’t on the person but on the icon that is a vehicle to bring other people closer to God.”  See more photos of her works at https://bessziconography.com/#/st-johns-church/.

  

 

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