I once saw a photo of a group of kids from First Baptist Church, Atlanta. They were visiting the First Baptist Church in, I think the Capital of Serbia. It was a beautiful old church, just about packed.
Looking at the photo, one thing struck me. Every female over maybe 16 years old had her head covered. Often by only a little patch of material.
I then remember the Apostle Paul’s writing about it being a disgrace for a woman to be in church with her head uncovered.
When I was growing up, this was required in the Catholic Church too.
It all depends on if you accept God’s Command in 1 Corinthians 11:5 and 6.
…:5And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved. 6If a woman does not cover her head, let her hair be cut off. And if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.”
The Russian Orthodox are absolutely correct according to God’s word.
Pics, damnit pics
I can remember my Mother always wearing a hat in church. This was a Southern Baptist Church.
Maybe around 1960 or a few years later it quit being the custom and I don’t recall her wearing one after that.
This brought up a memory of my Grandmother. She wrote a story in the “Holmes County Advertiser” of her trip to South Carolina to represent an organization.
There was a problem tho. No proper girl then (just after 1900) traveled without a hat. They arrived at the train station in DeFuniak Springs only a few minutes before the train departed. Her Sister went to the Jennings Sisters store, bought the hat and threw it through the trains window to Grandmother just as the train pulled out.
In my first church, women/girls were expected to wear some form of headcovering during the meetings. Extra coverings were on hand in case a lady forgot her own at home.
Setting aside the headcovers, the part of the article that impressed me was this:
“Russians are famous for standing for hours on end during their long, long services. While usual services are 2-3 hours, services during Great Lent and in monasteries span up to 6 hours.
And for most of that time, most of the congregation is standing upright.”
quote from article-
Submission. Others will outright say that this is a sign of their acknowledgement of their husbands’ leadership.
They understand ‘headship’ and governmental authority.
Stems from the curses in the garden.
He reverses the curse!
But man and woman need to understand their roles so those curses don’t affect their marriage, families, communities, churches, governments.
and the world is full of examples of a woman seeking to ‘wear the pants’ and be the head.
55 million plus abortions in this country alone is a byproduct of it.
covering one’s head while praying or prophesying shows their understanding of their role and it isn’t as the ‘head’ of the marriage or family.
It is why special attention was paid to widows and the fatherless- they had ‘lost their ‘head’’..
Not an accident a bunch of non western women who wear head coverings are coming to America or the west.
they are a witness.
something most won’t/can’t see.
Maybe There are more pidgins in Russia?
My wife and I visit a Russian Orthodox Church a few times to worship with friends and my wife wears a scarf over head out of respect for their traditions.
Was interesting to watch the recent May Day parade at the Kremlin. The Defense Minister, a General, entered the Kremlin Square standing in large convertible under an Arch with the Holy Family engraved atop. With all eyes on him as it was the start of the review of troops, he made the Sign of the Cross as he passed under this Arch. If that happened in the West, the General would have been arrested and sent to the brig awaiting court martial.
I toured NYC circa 1968 and had to pack a black hairnet to wear to the Catholic church the tour group planned to visit.
Bubushkas! :-)
In my mom’s day women wore head coverings to Catholic mass, too.