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...