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https://praytellblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/OPS1.jpg624416LUCAS CHRISTENSEN -- The point of the image is encounter. This sacred art is meant not merely to instruct the faithful (pace Gregory the Great), but it facilitates communion. This is true of all the liturgical arts—they are all forming an encompassing, diachronic and synchronic image of heavenly worship.