Icone Sacre

Features Icone Sacre

The sequence of images is not programmed but only manual.
Press the "NEXT" button, the image that appears remains on the screen until you press the button again to view the next image.Icon is a Greek word that literally means “image”.
In Christian art, the term icon identifies paintings with religious subjects, especially typical of Byzantine art.But the sacred icon is much more than a simple painting.The icon is a sacramental.
That is, something that favors the encounter between the faithful and God the Father.In fact, the icon is sacred, because it is an invocation of the divine presence.To establish the importance of the icon in prayer there is also a document from the Council of Nicaea which attests: "Whoever venerates an icon venerates the reality of whoever is represented in it."The essential function of the icon, in continuity with the meaning and value of the "signs" of the Christian mystery, is to bring to the eyes what the word brings to the ear.
The image is like a presence that presents itself to our gaze, both through material eyes and through "the eyes of the heart", like an open window on the mystery to be able to enter into communion with Christ, with the Mother of God, with the Saints: a presence that becomes accessible to invite us to realize in our lives what we see, after reliving it internally.Icon painting not only represents a wonderful form of art, but is also a way of living ones faith with greater intensity and a help in getting closer to Holiness, identifying with the painted subject (Christ, the Virgin, the Saints).