“It is striking that the more one loves a person the more they love to see them and enjoy their presence. And when this is not possible due to the distance between them or for any other reason, then they take their photograph, they kiss it, hold it to their heart…In a similar way are holy icons embraced, for which our respect and love is given to the person depicted, and not the material object, because, as Basil the Great stresses: ‘The honor towards the image passes on to the prototype.'”
(Fr. George Papavarnavas, 21st Century protopresbyter) [Icons; Reverence; Tradition]

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