Irene-isms
Each time I attend a workshop with my teacher Irene, I am struck by the number ways she can relate the writing of icons to the spiritual life. Today I decided to dub her wise iconographic sayings as Irene-isms. One of this day’s many Irene-isms was her explanation on how to correct something that goes wrong with the icon, painting an line in the wrong spot for instance. Her first advice for when something like this happens is that you are better off leaving it alone and just correcting it later in the process as layers of paint are added. She then went on to relate this process of correction to the sacrament of reconciliation. She noted that once you sin or make a mistake in life, the sin remains a part of your history and has an effect even after you have been forgiven. But if a person changes their life and forms a new pattern that is opposed to a particular sin, over time things can begin to look very different. When a person recognizes a mistake and makes a conscious effort to correct it, the life of virtue becomes visible, with sin fading into the background.
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