This icon is called the Mandylion, a painting of the cloth upon which Jesus imprinted his face when King Abgar summoned Jesus to cure him. There's a lot that needs a cure these days: a condominium collapsed by neglect, the faces of killers and haters and people (even in government) whose goal is to create chaos, the environment being destroyed by draught and fire, conspiracy theories, covid remedy pushback and new cases on the rise.
We might take a break from it all and ponder the face of Jesus here, and the last line of Psalm 17 which seems to echo it.
But at my vindication I shall see your face;
when I awake, I shall be satisfied, beholding your likeness.
