"I am glad that icon-writing is alive": His Beatitude Lubomyr

"I am very glad that icon-writing [painting] is alive; that it is not only an age-old art but, like human tradition, history is passed from generation to generation. The transferring of the art of icon-writing, together with faith which gives inspiration to icon-writers, is a treasure which I hope we also, through modern artists, will transmit to our successors." So His Beatitude Lubomyr said when presented with an icon of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Mother of God. Thus the Head of the UGCC cordially expressed his thanks for the prayerful gift. The icon was given to the Head of the UGCC by the Center for Research in Ukrainian Sacred Culture for assistance and support in conducting the symposium "Ukrainian sacred art of the end of the 20^th to the beginning of the 21st century," which took place in Kyiv on December 25-27, 2008. As part of the symposium took place the presentation of the album "Ukrainian artists of sacred art from the end of the 20^th to the beginning of the 21st centuries," the introduction to which was written by the Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate, Patriarch Filaret, and the Head of the UGCC, His Beatitude Lubomyr.

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