Jean-Serge wrote:I come back with my topic : pietism is Orthodox worship...
As regards prostrations i.e great metany, the issue consisits in knowing which is the meaning of prostration... I think prostration or kneeling squares with repentance (asking forgiveness). So I really do not understand why making a prostration during a weekday liturgy before the Lord's prayer, or before communion when the priest comes with the Holy Gifts...
Prostrations also have to do with worship; 'O come let us worship and fall down ..', and prayer; 'Again and again on bended knee . .'.
These moments, acccording to my modest opinion, are linked with resurrection or eschatology, so they would require standing... A professor at the Saint Serge Orthodox institute in Paris wrote an interesting essay (in French) about kneeling. He advocated for no kneeling in any liturgy of Saint John, Saint Basil, Saint James etc excepted the Pre sanctified liturgy because any liturgy is exchatological... I agree with him on this point...
Now there's a problem, listening to the liturgical reformists from that 'institute in Paris' which spreads 'renovationism' imported from Russia. They also would have you not fast at all from Pascha to Penetecost, (much too long a time for us passionate people).