Be the Bee # 53 | Venerating Icons

What are icons, and why are they important?

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Music:

"Cloud Patterns," by Silent Partner, YouTube Digital Library

"Magic Marker," by Silent Partner, YouTube Digital Library

End Theme:
"Noahs Stark," by krackatoa
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/kra...

Links:

Icons are Not Idols
http://www.ocf.net/icons-are-not-idols/

Seventh Ecumenical Council
http://www.goarch.org/ourfaith/ourfai...

Sunday of Orthodoxy
http://lent.goarch.org/prayers/restor...

Photo credits:

Theotokos Icon
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

St. Luke Painting First Icon
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Bronze Serpent on the Pole
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

The Holy of Holies
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Replica of the Ark of the Covenant
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

The Holy Bible
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

People Praying Before an Icon
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Coin With Face of Emperor Leo III
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Destroying Icons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Panaghia Portaitissa (Iveron, Mt Athos)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Simonopetra Monastery, Mount Athos
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

The White Tower, Thessaloniki
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Map of Greece
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Haghia Sophia, Thessaloniki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ha...

Church With Bare Walls
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

St. John of Damascus
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Icon of All Saints
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Triumph of Orthodoxy Icon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tr...

Christ Icon (cover)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7895342...

Nativity Icon
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7130253...

Christ Icon
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Sunrise
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Nativity Icon
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Holy Communion
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7884588...

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