How Icons Happen 

@Nicholas Limon you are indeed blessed!

90% of priests are not 10% as talented as that man. Thank you, God, for blessing them with him.

@البتّار الازدي Did...Did you just come here to fight?

@البتّار الازدي Go to Christian Prince and show your guts . This a place for Christian discussion not a place for discussing pedo illiterate war lord.

@البتّار الازدي Muslims worship that black stone in Mecca

Well-played.

Ave Maria! The same :D

Do you have anywhere where you display/sell your work?

Um why the heck is host dude man if this RU-vid channel not replying!!!!????

@Jesus Christ servant remember the 2nd commandment bud and go take a shot of your own medicine

@Jesus Christ servantoh man, never heard that one before 🙄

"There's no kill like over-kill."

I second this! Would leave to hear him speak with Pageau.

Jonathan is amazing, I am waiting for this crossover to happen!

Amen

Yes! And talk about the symbolic world as it leads to Christ and the Church ☦️

And same goes for Matt!

He's a great man he's my priest

I mean, at least you didn't say 7-11

May God bless and protect you and your closed ones.

@@darthknight8676 thank you I appreciate that. Same to you buddy

@@rh3toricalanswer thank you. Means a lot.

Yeah same here (though I've never been religious nor raised religiously)

You are exactly correct. When many in the early church were illiterate, Icons we the "Books" of Scripture for the masses. It hurts me to read how closed minded some people can be by saying this is a form of idolatry. No this is pure truths through art.

I regard this as a translation issue. Different people translate different words in different ways. For example, I would translate Theotokos as "God bearer" and not "Mother of God." To me, the second translation has a pagan connotation.

@@kevinlove4356 This isn't a translation issue, since icons use ΜΡ ΘΥ (mother of God) and English post-dates Christianity and the term "mother of God..."

@@AveChristusRex This dates back to the Nestorian controversy and the Council of Chalcedon. The Nestorians referred to Mary as Christotokos (Christ-bearer) and the Orthodox referred to Mary as Theotokos (God-bearer). The Council of Chalcedon in 451 affirmed Mary as Theotokos to emphasize that the entirety of divinity was born in Jesus, in accordance with the Christological formulation of the Council. I prefer the translation of Theotokos as God-bearer, since "mother of God" could be incorrectly interpreted as the Second Person of the Trinity being begotten of Mary.

​@@kevinlove4356 Ironically, you just comitted the heresy of Nestorius! - "I prefer the translation of Theotokos as God-bearer, since "mother of God" could be incorrectly interpreted as the Second Person of the Trinity being begotten of Mary." - He insisted for Christotokos for the EXACT SAME same reason. Also, all the icons of the Theotokos ironically call her "METER THEOU" (mother of God), so you can't really object.

@@AveChristusRex The heresy of Nestorius was to assert that Jesus is two persons, one human and one divine. Sort of a holy schizophrenic. The Orthodox faith is that Jesus is one person; one of three persons who constitute the one entity of the Trinity. This one person has two natures; one human and one divine. The problem with Nestorianism is the same as the problem with monophysitism, which holds that Jesus has only one nature which is some sort of weird human/divine hybrid. This is the problem of salvation. As a human being, there is nothing special about Jesus. He is just an ordinary guy who tells bad puns, weeps at the death of his friend, bleeds and dies when he is nailed to a cross. Because Jesus is an ordinary human being, and not some sort of human/divine hybrid and not some holy schizophrenic, then his ordinary human nature and its relationship with God can be swapped out with mine. I too can have this relationship with God, which is known as theosis. To quote Athanasius, "God became man that man might become God." Nestorianism and monophysitism render that impossible. This is why the Christological definition of Chalcedon in 451 calls Mary Theotokos, and so do I. There is nothing really wrong with translating that as "mother of God." I just regard it as having pagan connotations that rub me the wrong way. It is like comparing Mary to Rhea, the mother of Zeus.

He blessed me today at church

That's because several major streams of the reformation considers icons as idolatry violating the decalogue.

I'm lucky to live 10 minutes away, I've been going weekly

Catholics are free to attend and receive communion in ALL Catholic Rites.Feel free to pop in an Eastern Catholic Church any Sunday for Divine Liturgy

He is, I've been to his Liturgy lol

He is I just saw him today at Divine Liturgy