Come to Heart Ridge this Lent and discover the beauty and meaning of Icons.
We are incredibly privileged to have expert teacher and iconographer, Meijun Lu, to lead a weekend retreat where attendees will not only learn about icons, but will write and paint their own. Using authentic materials and supplies shipped from Greece, attendees will use this ancient technique to contemplate and pray while making an icon.
Byzantine Iconography is the oldest and only Christian art form survived unchanged for the past 2000 years. Most icons painted and written are copies of these original icons.
Through this, you will feel this connection to the past.
Making an Icon is itself a retreat. It will look something like this:
Byzantine Iconography is the oldest and only Christian art form survived unchanged for the past 2000 years. Most icons painted and written are copies of these original icons.
Through this, you will feel this connection to the past.
Making an Icon is itself a retreat. It will look something like this:
- Before starting work, make the sign of the Cross; pray in silence and pardon your enemies.
- Work with care on every detail of your icon, as if you were working in front of the Lord Himself.
- During work, pray in order to strengthen yourself physically and spiritually; avoid all useless words, and keep silence.
- Pray in particular to the Saint whose face you are painting. Keep your mind from distractions, and the Saint will be close to you.
- When you choose a color or decide where to make a line, stretch out your hands interiorly to the Lord and ask His Counsel.
- Do not be jealous of your neighbor’s work; his/her success is your success too.
- When your icon is finished, thank God that His Mercy granted you the grace to paint the Holy Images.
- Have your icon blessed. Be the first to pray before it. Set it in a place of honor in your home.
Details: The retreat will begin Friday evening at 7:00 with an introductory session. Saturday will be a combination of working on your icon, demonstrations, breaks with the options of walking, studying, praying, (or napping?), Sunday will be the culmination of your work, staying as long as desired after lunch to finish.
Comfortable lodging for 2 nights as well as 5 meals will be provided.
Costs: For the retreat itself including all instruction, lodging and meals is $250 for a shared room, $350 for a single.
The materials will cost $110 which includes one 8x10 inch claybord panel(cradle), two professional brushes, plastic liquid pigment container, mixed pigments to share in the classroom, printed color pattern, and one carbon paper for tracing.
Comfortable lodging for 2 nights as well as 5 meals will be provided.
Costs: For the retreat itself including all instruction, lodging and meals is $250 for a shared room, $350 for a single.
The materials will cost $110 which includes one 8x10 inch claybord panel(cradle), two professional brushes, plastic liquid pigment container, mixed pigments to share in the classroom, printed color pattern, and one carbon paper for tracing.
Meijun has chosen this beautiful icon of the Theotokos. The retreatants will create an icon of just the face of Mary from this image since time is limited.
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This icon is currently in the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai in the remote Egyptian desert in the oldest continuously inhabited monastery in the Christian world.
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Information about our retreat instructor and some of her work:
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE
07-08/23 Participated wall painting program at Orthodox church, Jeonju, South Korea 04-07/22? Received Iconographic Instruction from Dr. Sozos Yiannoudes, Greece 01/17-02/20 The founder of Pantocrator Iconographic Arts Institute, giving instructions in four cities of Taiwan 03/13-02/20 Columnist, Catholic Weekly, Witness Magazine F. Verbiest Foundation, Taiwan 06-07/19 Completed Iconographic Workshop directed by Dr. Sozos Yiannoudes, Greece 09/15-02/17 Completion of study from Fr. Jerome Chang, Iconographic Arts Institute , Seoul South Korea 09-11/10 Participated in the first stage of the icon painting program directed by Mary Katsilometes in Resurrection Catholic Church, Tualatin, OR. 08/06-05/08 Master degree, Monastic Study, School of Theology, St. John’s University, MN 07/06-10 Student at Summer School held by Mary Katsilometes and Kathy Sievers, Iconographic Arts Institute, Portland, OR. 09/87-07/92? Soochow University, Taiwan (BA in English Literature) |