Orthodox Church Prayer | Orthodox and gay https://orthodoxandgay.com Orthodox and gay Mon, 20 Feb 2023 01:41:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Praying with Eyes Closed or Open? https://orthodoxandgay.com/praying-with-eyes-closed-or-open https://orthodoxandgay.com/praying-with-eyes-closed-or-open#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2023 01:41:06 +0000 https://orthodoxandgay.com/?p=3907 The Orthodox has many rules and directives for priests. One that I frequently violated was serving the Divine Liturgy from memory and not reading from the service book. The sacred services of the Church are quite beautiful and deeply rooted in Scripture as well as the writings of the Holy Fathers. The words and symbolic […]

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