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To: kosta50

"That's why "old country" Orthodox parishes never have pews (the Church is supposed to be a home, not a theater!), and there are chairs along the walls for the sick and weak (pregnant, elderly, etc.)...."

Those are always my excuses (well, not pregnancy) for using them when I'm in Greece! :)


7,710 posted on 06/04/2006 6:34:02 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis
Those are always my excuses (well, not pregnancy) for using them when I'm in Greece! :)

Kolo, just take a look around you, when you are there, and you will see heads, with hair white as snow, of people who could be your parents, standing the entire 2-hour Divine Liturgy, and you will feel no desire to sit. :)

7,738 posted on 06/04/2006 7:53:54 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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