Redeeming The Time

When you look at an icon, you should understand what the triumph of Orthodoxy is. It is not that we can venerate icons freely. It is that God became man, and the image of the icon tells us, "You can become perfected." The Gospel and Epistle today give us the way to perfection, if we unpack the things said to the guileless Nathaniel and add an essential ingredient from St Paul, "Without guile, and with patience, COME AND SEE, and thou shalt see greater things than these."