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Fr. Anthony Nelson reveals the true nature of Monastery Icons, a company that sells \"icons\" and other religious products with a veneer of Orthodoxy but associated with Hinduism. He exposes the history and practices of the Light of Christ Monastery and the Convent of the Virgin Mary, a cult founded by Abbot Bishop George Burke.
I've heard claims by priest and laity alike that go bold enough to say that they're straight up demonic, and that their "icons" are spiritually dangerous. Not to mention the insanely neon and cartoonish colors/style in their images are sketchy... Avoid "Monastery Icons" like the plague.
Monastery Icons isn't actually Christian at all, it's some weird New Age/Hindu company (one that seems to have a target audience of Catholics who are into Eastern iconography, since they have a lot of icons of Roman Catholic saints).
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Controversial. Old. Q&A. SmokyDragonDish. •. One issue I have with them as Roman Catholic is that they're specifically targeting us. The tradition of Iconography is basically as old as the Church. In the West, we sort of lost that tradition in the Late Middle Ages/Renaissance.
Iconoclastic Controversy, a dispute over the use of religious images ( icons) in the Byzantine Empire in the 8th and 9th centuries. The Iconoclasts (those who rejected images) objected to icon veneration for several reasons, including the Old Testament prohibition against images in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:4) and the possibility of idolatry.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dec 29, 2021 · As an Eastern Orthodox Christian, the image of Jesus that I know best is the ancient Christ Pantocrator icon from St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mt. Sinai. It is a complex icon of Jesus that, well, would be hard to label as one of the “surfer Jesus” images in some contemporary churches.
answers definitively given during the Iconoclastic Controversy 1100-1200 years ago, when the Orthodox loudly proclaimed “YES! icons ARE necessary:” without icons there is no Orthodox Christianity, because icons confirm and verify the truths that Orthodoxy proclaims. On the first Sunday of Great Lent
