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Jesus Christ the Savior,
egg tempera on wooden board, Volos, January 12, 2023
This Christ has the following signifi-
cant thing, the Lord’s eyes have a vi-
sionary look, that is, not usual but
the revelatory look that reveals that
he is not a simple person but some-
thing very remarkable, that by wor-
shiping 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 relation-
ship 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 ex- pressed 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 strug- gle. 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. — Stamatis Skliris
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