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To: Honorary Serb
Monday's Great Compline with the first quarter of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete was sheer “liturgical calisthenics”
188 posted on 02/25/2015 3:46:44 PM PST by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: lightman

The REAL marathon of prostrations (which I sometimes refer to as “Orthodox yoga”) is the Rite of Forgiveness, on the Sunday before the Great Fast starts.

http://orthodoxwiki.org/Forgiveness_Sunday

http://www.schmemann.org/byhim/forgivenesssunday.html

Something like this service might be helpful in Lutheran parishes, too, since there are resentments and indifference to each other in every parish of every church body. But it is possible that like much else, the rite will only work in the context of the Holy Orthodox Church.


189 posted on 02/26/2015 4:20:20 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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