paxchristi on Nostr: Iconoclasts have been and have gone. They “lost”. A church with icons, and ...

Iconoclasts have been and have gone. They “lost”. A church with icons, and statues is more beautiful than those without. God is beauty itself, beautiful things especially those that signify our Lord and his church, are “windows” to himself ie initiators of contemplation and prayer.

No one is worshipping the image itself, they are drawn upwards to worship and contemplating, Himself, by images and statues.

The Roman Empire left crucifixes strewn about the place as a sign to not mess with Pax Romana.

We deliberately leave crucifixes “strewn” about the place, to “Let the whole house of Israel (the world) know for certain that God has made both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”