Iconography is the sacramental art of creating windows into Heaven. As the book of Hebrews tells us, we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, and the Iconographer humbly creates opportunities to peer into that cloud where we can encounter the love of God through Christ, our Blessed Mother, and the enumerable Saints who intercede for us daily. Icons offer us a “thin place” (as the Celtic Christians would say) where we can connect to our Kingdom family and ask them to pray for and with us. To pray before an Icon is to draw near to the rich river of faith offered to us by God through his people.