Holy Icon

"Jesus Christ the Savior", egg tempera on wooden board, Bishop Maxim, Volos, January 12, 2023

This Christ has the following significant thing, the Lord's eyes have a visionary look, that is, not usual but the revelatory look that reveals that he is not a simple person but something very remarkable, that by worshiping this icon, we enter into an existential relationship with the God-Man. Time stops before His gaze, and the image calls us into a eucharistic and doxological relationship with the King of Kings. Jesus, with His significant gaze, does not simply invite us to Him. He changes our minds to have nothing else to look at because the culmination of the adventure of this life is to stick to Christ with what the Holy Fathers say, DIVINE LOVE (which is the only ontologically eternal and permanent and faithful love according to the experience of the Saints of our Church, whose love and faith in Christ was unwavering and unwavering and endless as the eternal love of the Beloved. Our Iconographer reveals that, ultimately, the image of CHRIST is a matter of love expressed through bright colors. For her here, our lives, moreover, the Iconographer proves to us the positive power that emanates from the Theandric Face, which infuses us with a divine and joyful tenacity for a life full of action and struggle. As if to say to us: "Take courage; I have conquered the world." In other words, the Iconographer caught the quiet power of a RISEN BRIDEGROOM CROWNED WITH THORNS.