Picture This
The first grade religion class began to draw pictures of heaven. The teacher asked one girl what she was drawing and the girl said, "I'm drawing God the Father." The teacher replied, "No one knows what God looks like." To which the girl responded, "They will in a minute."
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The sacred image, the liturgical icon, principally represents Christ. It cannot represent the invisible and incomprehensible God, but the incarnation of the Son of God has ushered in a new "economy" of images: "Previously God, who has neither a body nor a face, absolutely could not be represented by an image. But now that he has made himself visible in the flesh and has lived with men, I can make an image of what I have seen of God...and contemplate the glory of the Lord, his face unveiled." (Catholic Catechism Par. 1159)
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The sacred image, the liturgical icon, principally represents Christ. It cannot represent the invisible and incomprehensible God, but the incarnation of the Son of God has ushered in a new "economy" of images: "Previously God, who has neither a body nor a face, absolutely could not be represented by an image. But now that he has made himself visible in the flesh and has lived with men, I can make an image of what I have seen of God...and contemplate the glory of the Lord, his face unveiled." (Catholic Catechism Par. 1159)
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