Sarx

Along with my friend, Peter, and Brodie, I visited the Serbian Orthodox Church in Hamilton yesterday. It was floor-to-ceiling icons (and no pews to obscure any of the work)! On the back wall of the church was an image that would have been called a “Doom” in the middle ages: the souls of the righteous rising to the final judgement and the souls of the damned falling into the mouth of a giant beast (here pictured).

It was fun to note that the procession of the damned is being led by a man wearing a Masonic Emblem. Also there are a hand-full of Bishops at the end of the Procession – yet there are no such men in the procession of the blessed (while there are priests and deacons leading the way upwards).

A critique of the power structure, even in icon form.