Ten icons?! That seems like a lot for a minimum collection. I\'ve been Orthodox from birth and I only got my 10th icon this year. I\'m sure it would be wonderful to have so many. It\'s just different from what I\'m used to.
I\'ve had an icon of the Theotokos (my patron) since my baptism. Now that I\'m married we have an icon of Christ in our bedroom and in the living room along with icons of our patrons. We have a small traveling set that goes on vacation with us. I also have two icons from each of my graduations, high school and college.
In the house I grew up in, we had an icon of Christ and the Theotokos in the icon corner and each person had his or her patron\'s icons in his or her bedroom. My great-grandmother also one or two others in her bedroom.
I laughed at the Orthodixie blog the other day when Fr. Joseph joked: \"I learned early on: When you go to a Convert\'s house to do a house blessing -- they have so many icons on the walls, all the walls, that you have to ask, \'Where is the icon corner?\"
\"Oh yeah, funny guy? Well what do you encounter when you go to bless a Greek\'s house?
\"Oh! That\'s easy! You have to take your own icon!\"
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