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Book cover for Playing with Icons: The Spirituality of Recalled Childhood

Playing with Icons: The Spirituality of Recalled Childhood by John Pridmore

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When we welcome children they reveal God and God’s kingdom to us like icons.

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“But I’ve come to learn that symbolism is a threat to actual change—it’s a chance for those in power to say, “Look how far you have come” rather than admitting, “Look how long we’ve stopped you from getting here.”
― George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren't Blue

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“At this stage we shall say only this: the Eucharist is the entrance of the Church into the joy of its Lord. And to enter into that joy, so as to be a witness to it in the world, is indeed the very calling of the Church, its essential leitourgia, the sacrament by which it “becomes what it is.” In”
― Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World

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