PRAYER REQUEST: Please keep Father Bill in your prayers as he awaits further treatment for a heart ailment. He is successfully out of a medically induced coma and his vital signs are improving. He called our office Tuesday and told Sheila he wants to come home. Of course he has some healing to do first, but we're thankful for his increasing energy.

Cards may be sent to our address:
William H. McNichols, St. Andrei Rublev Icons, 134 Bent St. Taos NM  87571  You may donate to the Father Bill Benefit Fund on our Contact page.

I honor and revere the Byzantine icons and the profound spirituality of the Othodox churches. I try to bring true devotion and prayer into the process of writing an icon, dependent upon the inspiration of the Blessed Trinity, the saints, holy ones, and the Mother of God. As a Roman Catholic iconographer, I have no intention of assuming to be Orthodox, but continue to pray with many others, for unity brought about by the Spirit, amongst the churches.

This year 2012, begins my 22nd year as an Iconographer and I am very grateful for the tremendous support from around the World. The great bulk of Icons are commissions from individuals, families and Churches. I have been looking at Icons from all ages and times in books I've found and ones given to me. They range from the most ancient with the muted colors age has bestowed on them to two fascinating books of Siberian icons with brilliant hues, almost singular in the world of icons as these icons have retained their vivid colors; so I learn something new from every one. Every once in awhile I stop and copy an icon I've been longing to give you, such as the new Christ Emmanuel I just finished this Christmas Season. The Christ Emmanuel is the center of a Deesis from 13th century Russia.

Abundant blessings,
Fr Bill McNichols