Contemplating We are Imago Dei

Loving God, Creator of every face I will see today, The ancient fathers of the Church taught that when You breathed life into Adam, You did not merely give him lungs — You stamped Your own likeness onto his soul like a master iconographer pressing gold leaf onto wood. Every human being carries that icon still, even when it is cracked, smoke-darkened, or buried beneath years of neglect.…