Holy Icon

"Stationary Movement", acrylic on canvas, Bishop Maxim, 2021

In eternity, the human existence will “acquire an ever-moving repose and a stationary movement”. This signifies the existential freedom from every necessity of motion or repose, the realization of existence as relation, the freedom of love as the mode of the fullness of existence. “A stationary movement that is simultaneously eternally-moving stasis, presupposes that outside of this is the Other in whom room is found: movement turns toward God and is stationary in Him. Stasis is also eternally-moving, because it is not exhausted in its limits, but turns out of itself.” (St. Maximus the Confessor)