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For a Christian – there are two settings for prayer: personal prayer, and common (communal) prayer. Common prayer is primarily prayer within the temple, but common prayer can be anywhere, for “where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of them”. The holy martyr Avvakum, when he could…
In the aftermath of the Nikonian councils of 1666, the priesthood ceased among Old Believers. This is not disputed by anyone, and indeed when, at the latter half of the 19th century a Nikonian bishop was received by a group of Old Believers, they went to great lengths to defend and explain how it was…
There is an almost universal truth across religious traditions – those that are the greater in zeal are the more particular and conformist in their appearance. Attire, like conduct, should be a reflection of the inner spiritual state. It does not take a genius to recognize that the woman in the grocery store wearing her Lululemon workout…