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Be a Living Icon, The Great Fast -

We hope that our series has helped your Great Fast and inspired you to be a living icon! 

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Be a Living Icon, The Great Fast -

Only two more weeks in the Great Fast! How's your Be a Living Icon challenge going?

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Be a Living Icon, The Great Fast -

Do you think you have a big forehead? Well, if you look at icons, they often have big foreheads too!

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Be a Living Icon, The Great Fast -

Mouths in icons are traditionally smaller than one would expect for the size of the face. It's not an accident!

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Be a Living Icon, The Great Fast -

The eyes of an icon are large, and depending on the tradition can be overly large compared to the rest of the face. In an icon of Christ, the eyes show us that Christ sees everything.

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Be a Living Icon, The Great Fast -

The process of writing an icon is one of constantly adding lighter and lighter colors. There are no shadows in an icon, the light in an icon comes from the person or from the entire scene. The background of an icon is traditionally gold, or gold paint, symbolizing uncreated light.

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Be a Living Icon, Clean Monday, The Great Fast -

Today is Clean Monday! Our theme for this year's Great Fast is Be a Living Icon! We invite you to explore the characteristics that make up an icon, what they represent, and how you can think about incorporating the representations into your daily life.

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Papal Prayers, Prayer Intentions -

This month Pope Leo asks us to pray for children with incurable diseases.

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Feast Day, Saints -

Today we celebrate the meeting of Our Lord with Simeon and Anna. Both of them had longed for the coming of the Messiah. Both had prayed in the temple day after day. Both had a hope because of the promise God made many many years earlier to their ancestors.

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Feast Day, Saints -

Today we celebrate the Venerable Macarius the Great. Macarius was a younger contemporary of St. Anthony the Great.

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