Dear friends, I bought some icons from Monastery Icons which is a Byzantine Catholic but then I read an article in www.orthodoxinfo.com stating they have \"icons\" of \"St\" Albert Einstein and other syncretistic doctrines, Hinduism, as well as icons of papist \"saints\" unrecognized by the Orthodox Church. So I had to dispose of several \"icons\".
I did not know any better when I bought them; I think some unfortunately are sold by Light and Life in Minneapolis and some seem to ecumenically produced and not made in (by) an Orthodox iconographer.
Anyway, I think they do good icons at Saint Anthony\'s monastery in Florence AZ and Dormition Skete Icons in Buena Vista CO
and the Monastery of the Glorious Ascenscion Resaca GA Holy Trinity Monastery Jordanville NY Holy Transfiguration Monastery Boston MA
Saint Isaace of Syra Skete Boscobel WI
I have an icon of the martyrdom of Orthodox Christian at the hands of Roman catholic priests and hierarchs in Estonia who were cast into a frozen snowy icy river and drowned by the papists who were trying to force them to convert to papism by force of violence. It is documented in one of the issues of Orthodox Life by Holy Trinity Monastery Jordanville NY
I want to order some icons from Jordanville and from Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Brookline (Boston) MA I think some of the better Orthodox icons come from Boston though the HOCNA diocese in Boston is a kind of ultra Orthodox withdrawal from ROCOR and an unnecessary schism as ROCOR is not at all syncretistic or ecumenist as some in HOCNA fear.
Anyway, there is an excellent article on the Boston schism of Father Panteleimon and the alleged misconduct and hypocrisy and problems of the jurisdiction. I am sad for all this and wish we would all get closer to God, for at times, for some of us, it is true we love our sins more than we love God.
We all need repentance while there is still time. Anyway, I don\'t use icons as much as I should, though I do make the sign of the cross before some of them at times.
I need to be more open to Orthodox
iconic piety than I currently am.\\
God help you find icons.
I hope to get another icon of the blessed Theotokos and of Saint Andrew the First Called Apostle of Christ from Holy Transfiguration Monastery.
I recommend one get an icon of whatever patron saint one can find.
God save us.
Always,
Scott
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