The icon draws believers into the presence of God, places them before the throne of the Holy and confronts them face-to-face with the holiness, the otherness, and yet the humanity and the divinity of the Word made flesh, Jesus. . . .
The icon is a way for the friends of Christ to share in his mysteries, in the sacraments, and to come to know the Father as Jesus knew him while in the flesh.
— Megan McKenna, Christ All Merciful