By death He trampled death
I love Easter so much that it is hard to write about it. I cry thinking about it. It is the most full of true joy, the most expressive of...
top of page
.png)
akathist
Search
Lara Neri
- Apr 11, 2019
- 5 min
Flowery Sunday in Constantinople
Flowery (Palm) Sunday began to be celebrated in Constantinople by the fifth century - a couple centuries after it began in Jerusalem and...
46 views0 comments
Lara Neri
- Apr 4, 2019
- 4 min
Onward & Upward
I remember listening in amazement in high school chapel at my Christian school as various guest speakers told of dramatic conversions...
103 views1 comment
Lara Neri
- Mar 21, 2019
- 4 min
saying yes to losing control
When I was younger I did not want the mess, the noise, the chaos, or the financial burden of children. And I was under the impression...
167 views0 comments
Lara Neri
- Mar 19, 2019
- 3 min
Superheroes & the Triumph of Orthodoxy
The first time I remember seeing an icon was in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. I was taking a class in Israel my sophomore year...
92 views1 comment
Lara Neri
- Feb 28, 2019
- 3 min
Will "Beauty save the world"?
I have often heard or seen Dostoevsky quoted, “Beauty will save the world.” It is attributed to him as if it were his personal...
125 views0 comments
Lara Neri
- Feb 21, 2019
- 4 min
Approaching Great Lent: all are responsible for all
Several years ago, after very emotional struggles with infertility and two heartbreaking miscarriages, we began our first adoption. It...
350 views4 comments
Lara Neri
- Feb 14, 2019
- 3 min
St. Valentine: active love is labor and fortitude
In our family, we have four very intense children, two adopted with trauma histories, one with secondary trauma, one with a missing...
34 views0 comments
Lara Neri
- Feb 7, 2019
- 3 min
St. Scholastica & the loving fatherhood of God
I have a hard time relating to the saints who knew they were going to be nuns from the time they were six - those saints who wanted to do...
141 views0 comments
Lara Neri
- Feb 1, 2019
- 2 min
Suffering & Softening
The feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple (2 February) is one of the Twelve Major Feast Days in the Eastern Church, also...
18 views0 comments
Lara Neri
- Jan 25, 2019
- 3 min
The Byzantine Church as Microcosm
The interior of a Byzantine Church should be a three dimensional icon; the Church is a model of the universe, a vision of the redeemed, a...
31 views0 comments
Lara Neri
- Jan 17, 2019
- 4 min
How is iconography different from other religious art?
One Sunday after liturgy, I overheard a visitor to our church commenting on the iconography, “Why do the figures look so strange? They...
22 views0 comments
Lara Neri
- Jul 26, 2016
- 2 min
art camps: pursuing Beauty together
Two intensive weeks of art camps have come to an end, and I am thankful for the experience. I kept enrollment to four students per camp...
4 views0 comments
Lara Neri
- Jul 5, 2016
- 2 min
iconography: window to the Divine
I have just returned from a beautiful, powerful, intense experience where art and prayer were indistinguishable. I have come away with a...
5 views0 comments
Lara Neri
- May 8, 2016
- 1 min
the transformative power of story
Various influences were dropped into my path that lead me into the Catholic Church, one of the most prominent being the work of Fyodor...
2 views0 comments
Lara Neri
- May 6, 2016
- 2 min
the feast of the Ascension
I love this quiet, mid-week feast day celebrating Christ's rising up to Heaven in His resurrected body. He leaves us with the commission...
1 view0 comments
Lara Neri
- Apr 26, 2016
- 2 min
creating a sacred space in the home
When I was living in St. Petersburg, I rented a small, airy room in a sunny, high-ceilinged apartment on the corner of Dostoevsky Street...
5 views0 comments
Lara Neri
- Apr 3, 2016
- 1 min
Christ is risen! Indeed He is risen!
Pascha is my favorite time of the year! I love the joy of this season, the hope of rebirth and resurrection! We celebrate this day with...
1 view0 comments
bottom of page