Sunday of Orthodoxy

A very happy Sunday of Orthodoxy to all of you.

This is a joyous day, on the first Sunday of Lent (proof again that Lent isn't supposed to be sad or dreary). Though we celebrate the day that icons once again adorned our churches, we call this day the Sunday of Orthodoxy, a day to mark and celebrate the entirety of the Faith.

Why? Because those precious icons are powerful symbols of the Faith. In Christ the invisible became visible and expressable. Christ really was a man, and we celebrate that fact by portraying His Body. He also portray the Bodies of all the Saints. Yet the flesh we see depicted in an icon is not of this world. It is deified flesh, the Flesh of the Transfiguration.

Christ sharpened the lines that had faded in man, originally created in God's "likeness and image." Now we must all be icons of God.