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WEEK 2 - Day 6
Touching the intangible

Introduction
What is meant here can hardly be expressed in words.  Even the very best icon is only a hint of that which lies far beyond the picture and hidden within the mystery of God.  Nevertheless, Christians in the Eastern Church say that the icon is like a "corridor" that grants us passage to the inaccessible.

Exercice
- Andrei Rublev - The Trinity  (Meditation on Icon)
In looking at this icon try to "break through", as Meister Eckhart says, and place yourself before the reality which this icon - whatever it is suggesting to you - points to at the moment ...
Here meditation can turn into prayer without words and into worship of the unfathomable mysteries of God...

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