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For this day, the SJKP Liturgical Calendar specifies a double service to Hieromartyr Phocas and Apostle Quadratus (1B in the Order of Divine Services). The...
God willing, we will actually begin building our new temple in ten days. We have secured a loan, and have (barely) enough cash and loan money to complete the...
Bless Father - Perhaps not the best source for rubrics or liturgics . . . The book Facing East by Frederica Matthewes Greene has a whole chapter on how they...
I have seen in some places that when the priest incenses the whole interior of the Church, they turn and follow him with their eyes. In this the common...
Yes, it is called the "sunflower move". :) I used to do it because everyone else did it in my former parish, but was told it is not appropriate, but a lot of...
In my parish back home it was started by one lady and then, I guess because she is considered very pious, the folks around her started doing it. Pretty soon it...
The way that I understand it is that the priest and the congregation are actually supposed to be in the narthex and when the priest turns to bless, he is...
... This Sunday I mentioned to our cantors and readers that they don't have to swivel around during the entrances and censings; we face east to pray, read, and...
For what it's worth, to add to the mix, I have been told that one should never turn his back to the altar, so following the censer is inappropriate. Anna ... ...
Anna - One can easily follow the priest without turning one's back to the altar (which we all do when we leave the church). When you are about to have your...
... We just face east along with everybody else. It's a free-standing cantor-stand, like this one: http://tinyurl.com/3f9vay and it's 15 or 20 feet back from...
Dear Friends -- The question remains: Why *would* we turn to observe the deacon as he censes the interior walls of the temple? This liturgical action, a...
Some priests and deacons might feel they are really appreciated by the 'sunflowers'. I saw it in my old parish, and even after we were told to 'pray to the...
The Sunflower compulsion seems to be spreading, in the United States at least. In my area it is very common. Monk James has summarized the issue ably; there is...
No one is expected to "walk backward" out of the church but, whenever one passes from one side of the church to the other he should stop at the middle, ...
Apart from the censing during the opening psalm of the particularly russian 'Vigil' service, when the deacon carries a candle and precedes the priest who is...
Well, in Russian practice the priest also censes at the Magnification after the Polyeleos at a Festal Vigil and at the Evlogetaria at Resurrectional Matins,...
... russian 'Vigil' service, when the deacon carries a candle and precedes the priest who is censing, perhaps Fr Kirill could be more specific about what *is*...
St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral will have its annual Russian Food Festival this Saturday and Sunday, October 11th and 12th from noon to 5 PM each day. ...
Father Igumen Joseph , ... "American" it also seems to ... and more secularized with a disregard for holy space and ... proper attitude, posture and movement...
... whenever one ... the middle, ... the Holy ... exiting the ... then turn ... Father Igumen Joseph is right about this. I think most people would do this if...
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