Icons
The Essential Collection
By (author) Faith Riccio
$18.99
- ISBN: 9798893480115
- Trim size: 5 x 7 x 0.5 inches
- Weight: 10 ounces.
- Pages: 128
- Publication Date: 06 Aug 2024
Formats:
Paperback
In this lovely little gift book you'll discover 28 stunning icons in full-color by Sr. Faith Riccio, along with Scriptures to accompany them, inspirational texts from various persons of faith, and short descriptions of what is being pictured. An absolutely beautiful way to reflect upon these holy images.
Icons are an invitation to go beyond our world; to take a moment to look as through a window into heaven. The space they create gives us a wonderful and open access to reach out toward God and know him deeply in a new way. They are meant to enrich our spiritual lives. They were created to touch and form us and have an ability to soothe and confront where necessary. They provide a place to gather our wandering attention and direct it toward God.
“The images in this book will present to us, over and over, the mystery of personhood, as we encounter the face of Christ and of those who loved Him. In looking at the icons in this book, we can remember who we are, and what we are called to be, as we are continuously being “conformed to the eikon of his Son” (Rom 8:29) — From the Foreword by Frederica Mathewes-Green
Discover how by approaching and praying with these icons, you can experience how they help us live a good life, what they have to offer, what they did for Sr. Faith, and what they can do for you.
Watch the trailer here
Icons are an invitation to go beyond our world; to take a moment to look as through a window into heaven. The space they create gives us a wonderful and open access to reach out toward God and know him deeply in a new way. They are meant to enrich our spiritual lives. They were created to touch and form us and have an ability to soothe and confront where necessary. They provide a place to gather our wandering attention and direct it toward God.
“The images in this book will present to us, over and over, the mystery of personhood, as we encounter the face of Christ and of those who loved Him. In looking at the icons in this book, we can remember who we are, and what we are called to be, as we are continuously being “conformed to the eikon of his Son” (Rom 8:29) — From the Foreword by Frederica Mathewes-Green
Discover how by approaching and praying with these icons, you can experience how they help us live a good life, what they have to offer, what they did for Sr. Faith, and what they can do for you.
Watch the trailer here
Reviews
"Sr. Faith Ricco is an iconographer and a religious sister at the Community of Jesus on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. She studied extensively with Ksenia Pokrovsky. Her icons can be seen in private collections and exhibits, both nationally and internationally, and at the Church of the Transfiguration in Orleans, MA. With "Icons: The Essential Collection" she draws upon her years of experience and expertise to a study about approaching and praying with icons everyday featuring more than 60 full color images of Sr. Faith's icons.
Each individual icon is paired with a scripture and an inspirational word. The reader can easily experience how these beautiful icons help Christians to live a good life, what they have to offer, and what they did for Sr. Faith. Icons are an invitation to go beyond our world; to take a moment to look as through a window into heaven. The space they create gives us a wonderful and open access to reach out toward God and know him deeply in a new way. They are meant to enrich our spiritual lives. They were created to touch and form us and have an ability to soothe and confront where necessary. They provide a place to gather our wandering attention and direct it toward God. "Icons: The Essential Collection" is an extraordinary and highly recommended addition to personal, church, seminary, community, and academic library Christian Studies collections." —Midwest Book Review
"Sister Faith Riccio has crafted a book of beauty—both images of icons as well as texts from scripture and other writers to echo the holy faces that encounter us in the icons, of Christ, his mother, and their friends and ours, the saints. A wonderful book for personal meditation, a retreat or even in the classroom, a work of true beauty." —Father Michael Plekon, Ph.D. Professor, Sociology / Anthropology, Coordinator of the Program in Culture & Religion. Baruch College of the City University of New York, St Gregory the Theologian Orthodox Church, Wappingers Falls NY
Each individual icon is paired with a scripture and an inspirational word. The reader can easily experience how these beautiful icons help Christians to live a good life, what they have to offer, and what they did for Sr. Faith. Icons are an invitation to go beyond our world; to take a moment to look as through a window into heaven. The space they create gives us a wonderful and open access to reach out toward God and know him deeply in a new way. They are meant to enrich our spiritual lives. They were created to touch and form us and have an ability to soothe and confront where necessary. They provide a place to gather our wandering attention and direct it toward God. "Icons: The Essential Collection" is an extraordinary and highly recommended addition to personal, church, seminary, community, and academic library Christian Studies collections." —Midwest Book Review
"Sister Faith Riccio has crafted a book of beauty—both images of icons as well as texts from scripture and other writers to echo the holy faces that encounter us in the icons, of Christ, his mother, and their friends and ours, the saints. A wonderful book for personal meditation, a retreat or even in the classroom, a work of true beauty." —Father Michael Plekon, Ph.D. Professor, Sociology / Anthropology, Coordinator of the Program in Culture & Religion. Baruch College of the City University of New York, St Gregory the Theologian Orthodox Church, Wappingers Falls NY
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