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March 20, 2018

Praying with paint: Iconography as a conversation with God

Master iconographer and art restorer Roumen Kirinkov offers the iconography course at the Sheptytsky Institute.

Love and pictures go together. You can piece together who and what anybody loves by the pictures on their phone, the pictures they hang on their walls, the pictures pinned to their cubicle at work and the pictures they’ve posted to Facebook.

Published in Arts News
April 3, 2015

Preparing for Easter a time of joy for Eastern Catholics

Benedictine Father Michel Van Parys, abbot of the Byzantine-rite Abbey of St. Mary of Grottaferrata, outside of Rome, said the “dimension of spiritual warfare” and the belief in Jesus’ words that “some demons can only be cast out by prayer and fasting” are fundamental to Great Lent.

VATICAN CITY - Joy is not a word people usually associate with strict fasting and penance — unless they are Eastern-rite Catholics.

Published in International