A Prayer For the Blessing and Consecration of Icons
Leader: Creating God, You fashioned the universe in love and brought us forth from the earth
Throughout the ages, our ancestors longed to see Your face and when the time had grown full, You sent Your Christ among us so that we might find our way back to You, our source and our destiny.
Look upon Your servants here and upon this icon, created in love and prayer.
Fill it with the radiance of Your good, holy, and life-giving Spirit to complete the work of our hands for Your glory and for the good of those who will come to pray before it.
May this icon be a source of blessing and hope for Your people, may it give comfort and challenge complacency, and may it proclaim Your infinite love for us in every situation.
We ask this in Jesus’ name.
Assembly: Amen.
The icon then is anointed with holy oil on the back using these or similar words:
Leader: This icon is blessed and sanctified in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Assembly: Amen.