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How
should one read the Psalms for several deceased?
Questions to the priest you can ask here.
First you should very strongly love this person, who we would like to bring to the faith. Secondly you should have a very strong wish that our relative becomes a believer. Out of a strong love and wish is also born a strong prayer, which can with Gods help crush the ice of unbelief in the heart of the person dear to us. The expression form of our praying effort can be varied, it can be the reading of “akafists”, “kanons”, Psalms, the Gospel or some separate prayers. A person can also pray in his own words. If you plan to read an “akafist” then it is best to do this every day for 40 days. Very often the Lord fulfils the asked for after such praying. Many pilgrimages take place in the weekend, how should one act concerning the visiting of Church on Sunday? On Sundays and holidays a Russian Orthodox Christian should visit the church, but as is known on these days believing persons are not only to go to Divine Service but should also do deeds of mercy. For instance help an acquainted sick solitary person to clean, buy groceries, do the washing etc. Visit as far as possible children’s homes, shelters, prisons, read sacred literature at home, best is to do this with the whole family and discuss the things you read, go in the weekend and on holidays on pilgrimage even without visiting a church service on these days. This kind of trip is also a deed pleasing to God. Through this a person learns very much about the Russian Orthodox world by visiting churches monasteries and sacred places. This is visual knowledge and teaching of the faith and Christian devotion, this is also the practical teaching to a person of the Russian Orthodoxy and love towards God and neighbours. With one’s own eyes seeing and touching the sacred place. To thank the Holy Ghost, touches the heart of a person and he often receives that, which he could not receive perceiving the Russian Orthodox faith theoretically. Therefore those kinds of trips are necessary and the do not in the least contradict the rule on the visiting of church on Sunday.What should we do with the willows and birches after Palm Sunday and Whitsuntide? Anton
After the willows have stood in the house for a year (that is after the next Willow Sunday)
you can burn them and their ashes you can bury in a place where people won’t walk over them
or release them with the stream of the river. The same one also does with the birches after
Whitsuntide.
Eugene We have Russian Orthodox churches for the unification of the Russian people, the faith in Christ, which unifies not only Russians among themselves but unifies and brings in general all people of different nationalities independent of their political views, social position and educational level closer to each other. Christ is accessible to all people, herein leis the exceptionality of the Christian Russian Orthodox faith, what can be more strong for the unification of the Russian people then our Russian Orthodox faith, our Russian Orthodox church. Our faith and calling also contributes to itself that there is no bigger measure of uniting and binding Russian people among themselves and even stronger nothing can unite and bind than the faith in Christ and the holy Russian Orthodox church. Therefore the creation of a Russian Orthodox Synagogue is not at all required of us.
Questions to the priest you can ask here. |
