![]() “It’s like a rich gold mine when you talk about iconography,” Sister Carrie said, noting her appreciation for “the history, how (the icons) came to be stories, how each person is drawn to them in different ways and which aspect of a particular icon seems to speak to them, how people like to sit in their presence.” Working on it as she had time, she finished it in June. She learned of this icon prototype in a class conducted by iconographer Debra Korluka at the Basilica of Mary in Minneapolis this past March, and then commenced making her own. She was introduced to the prayer and art of iconography in 1995. Sister Carrie studied and practiced various forms of art for many years - from classical realism to still life and portrait work, using various media. She spends much of her free time painting. ![]() Henry in Monticello, Minnesota, and, one day a week, oversees liturgy at Our Lady of the Lake in Mound, Minnesota. She leads formation for the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults at St. Sister Carrie, 79, is semiretired but works at two parishes. Irenaeus described - showing Mary untying knots. When the pope was a student in Germany, Sister Carrie said he was taken by a 17th-century painter, Johann Melchior Schmidtner, and one painting in particular. “He wrote of how Mary, ‘the second Eve,’ untied the knots handed down to us by our first parents,” she said. Sister Carrie said the devotion to Mary, Undoer of Knots - also known as Our Lady, Undoer of Knots - originated in the time of St. “We lean into the heart of Mary, our Blessed Mother, who, through her intercession with her son, loosens them and gives us hope.” People needn’t be alone in untangling life’s “knots,” she said. The icon - and a devotion - is called Mary, Undoer of Knots. (CNS) - In a year when a pandemic has entangled lives across the globe, Presentation Sister Carrie Link painted an icon that may help Catholics straighten them out.
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