Lord, my heart has said of you, ‘Seek His face.’
O Lord, I do seek your presence; do not hide your face from me.

How can we with mortal eyes

contemplate this image, whose celestial splendor

the host of heaven presumes not to behold?

He who dwells in heaven condescends this day

to visit us by His venerable image;

He who is seated on the cherubim

visits us this day by a picture,

which the Father has delineated

with His immaculate hand,

which He has formed in an ineffable manner

and which we sanctify by adoring it

with fear and love.

— Medieval…