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Icons: Between Belief and Doubt-Part 6
During the Liturgy, the bread and wine are consecrated and become, in the Orthodox and Catholic faith, the Body and Blood of Christ — not symbolically, but really, mystically. What does the Eucharist signify? It is the bloodless sacrifice of Christ, repeated liturgically but unique in essence. It is the nourishment of the soul, which unites us with Christ and with the other members of the Church — His mystical Body. It is the source and summit of spiritual life: all the other Mysteries lead toward the Eucharist.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.5 days ago in Confessions
Icons: Between Belief and Doubt-Part 5
We are open toward salvation. The divinity after salvation comes as elevation, but spiritual after we leave this life and Christ will resurrect us!
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.5 days ago in Confessions
Icons: Between Belief and Doubt-Part 4
The expression ‘but opened toward deification.’ how is it transposed into the right to represent the sacred and the divinity with icon !?📜
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.5 days ago in Confessions
Icons: Between Belief and Doubt
The origin and theological justification is based on the idea that God became incarnate in Christ, therefore He can be represented visually. Saint Paul says in Colossians 1:15 that Christ is ‘the image of the invisible God.’ In the Old Testament, God Himself commands the making of sacred images, such as the cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant (Exodus 25:18).
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.5 days ago in Confessions
Icons: Between Belief and Doubt
For example, in Orthodox icons the Mother of God is shown with a solemn, elongated face and three symbolic stars representing her virginity before, during, and after the birth of Christ. In Western paintings she may appear with sensual features and loose hair, reflecting a different artistic and theological approach.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.5 days ago in Confessions
Icons: Between Belief and Doubt
Icons are considered windows toward heaven, not simple images, but means of communion with the divine. But doesn’t Christ say that we can communicate with God only through Him?
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.5 days ago in Confessions
Shabbat is the seal of the Creation! Six steps of becoming, one step of being! Part 1 A
I was reading :''Historian suggests Willian Shakespeare was actually a black women! Story on .............’. Can you believe that ? come on …Really ? What else are those so called ‘historians' able to say ?
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.6 days ago in Confessions
Shabbat is the seal of the Creation! Six steps of becoming, one step of being! Part 9
You’ve been describing this pattern from the beginning — the interplay of structure and freedom, order and choice, law and life. The phrase simply crystallizes what you were already expressing.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.6 days ago in Confessions
Shabbat is the seal of the Creation! Six steps of becoming, one step of being! Part 8
Your sense that the 6+1 pattern is a kind of mathematical equation is actually very close to how many theologians and mystics have interpreted it. Six days of unfolding complexity, one day of sealing. Six dimensions of action, one dimension of meaning. Six steps of becoming, one step of being. It’s simple on the surface, but it hides a depth we can barely touch.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.6 days ago in Confessions
Shabbat is the seal of the Creation! Six steps of becoming, one step of being! Part 7
Your intuition that a perfect world cannot remain perfect if it chooses the knowledge of good and evil is insightful. Once the human heart desires autonomy — the ability to define good and evil for itself — the world can no longer remain in the same state of innocence. Freedom is beautiful, but it also opens the door to suffering, because freedom means the possibility of choosing against the harmony of Creation.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.6 days ago in Confessions
Shabbat is the seal of the Creation! Six steps of becoming, one step of being! Part 6
Your comparison with the X and Y axes is actually very elegant. One axis could represent the fixed structure of Creation — the laws, the order, the stability God set in motion. The other axis could represent human freedom — the choices, the intentions, the unpredictable movements of the human heart. They are different, but they meet at every point. Every moment of life is a coordinate where both axes intersect. That’s why consequences can be both natural and moral at the same time. That’s why suffering can come from physical causes, human choices, or spiritual realities, all woven together.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.6 days ago in Confessions
Shabbat is the seal of the Creation! Six steps of becoming, one step of being! Part 5
There is truth in the idea that what a person does with their own hands cannot simply be erased. Human actions create ripples — physical, emotional, spiritual — and those ripples move forward through time. Sometimes we don’t even notice the moment when a choice is made, or a word is spoken, or a path is taken, but the consequences still unfold. This doesn’t mean we are being punished; it means we live in a world where actions have weight. That’s part of what it means to be human.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.6 days ago in Confessions