[Honorary Serb]

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.

[lightman]

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.

That was done three times in my former parish, but on Maundy Thursday and without prostrations.

The first time there as nearly 100% paricitipation, even from the Zwinglian LINOs who otherwise fled from anything remotely tactile and sacramental.

The second time some of the Zwinglian LINOs sat like bumps on a log in their pews.

The last time a was similar...IIRC some of the LINOs just stayed home.