Praying with icons is a practice on the rise in the West, as Catholics and other Christians explore long-neglected means of whispering their longings to God.

Praying with icons can help enrich our own spiritual lives, but the images can also help us to pray for family and friends, and even for an end to the maladies that plague our world.

'Icons in Transformation,' an exhibit of the devotional art of Russian-Swedish artist Ludmila Pawlowska, will be open at Huntsville's Church of the Nativity through April 20, 2014.

Icons, Icon Painters, & Praying With Sacred Icons – Deacon Paul O. Iacono, Fra Angelico Institute for the Sacred Arts. My Favorite Hapsburg Emperors - The Mad Monarchist.

Icons are “painted in prayer, with prayer and for prayer.” The theology of the icon “is based on the Incarnation, the revelation of the image of God in the human form of Jesus Christ.” ...

BOLIVER, Pa. (WJAC) — The Diocese of Altoona Johnstown is preparing to offer an online course called “Praying with Icons.” Religious icons have been around since the fifth century and are an ...

In time, venerated icons become portraits once again: a picture of a person whom you’ve come to know and love, who will pray for you, or with you. My favorite icon in the church was of the ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Now, “writing” religious icons. In the Orthodox Christian tradition, icons are said to be written, not painted. The Orthodox consider making icons more a form of prayer ...

Sept. 18, 6:30 p.m.: Lecture, "Transformative Vision: Praying With Icons."* ... the downtown church will host the exhibit "Icons in Transformation," a collection of about 150 pieces by Ludmila ...

Thus, praying with icons is a profound spiritual experience. “Where icons are venerated, what is depicted becomes present,” said Father Dennis. As such, where an icon of the Blessed Mother is ...