How to Write & Pray with Icons
Fr Dave Tremble MGL
This two-day Seminar will involve:
Firstly, discussing the process of writing/making an icon from scratch, including theology and practicalities – this includes viewing several original icons in different stages of completion.
Further, there will be dedicated time to allow the beauty and ministry of icons to be received in a prayerful setting.
“Christian iconography expresses in images the same Gospel message that Scripture communicates by words. Image and word illuminate each other.” Catechism of the Catholic Church 1160
Who is Fr Dave Tremble MGL?
Born in Goulburn, NSW, Fr Dave identifies the year that Pope John Paul II visited Australia in 1986 as significant in his faith journey. During that year in a celebration of the Sacrament of Reconciliation on a youth retreat he encountered something of the tenderness and forgiveness in the heart of God described by Jesus in Luke 15. His experience of being unburdened and compassionately welcomed home through this Sacrament has remained one of the seeds of his priestly vocation. He describes how having received God’s mercy he felt compelled to be an instrument of mercy. In response to this call he was drawn into a way of consecrated life expressed in the MGLs making his religious vows on the 9 th December 1990 and ordained a priest on the 5th December 1997. After ordination he served in the St Benedict’s Parish in Canberra for seven years. Then six years as Chaplain to the St Martin de Porres Catholic Aboriginal Community in Darwin. Then moved to Melbourne as Parish priest for 6 years at St Benedict’s Community in Burwood. Then returning to the Darwin Mission for two more years before his current position in the Canberra MGL Formation House.
