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I have beg to differ regarding men's uncovered heads being scriptural.... in old Judaic practice men's heads were covered as a sign of respect to God. Christians in an effort to be different from Jews started that whole uncovered head bit...for men at least.

Miriam, please go back over our ...

I had also been taught the same thing as you about kissing the hand of a priest (don't do it if you've communed), but I couldn't remember where I'd heard that from so I figured I'd ask. :)

The teaching where I've been is that the bread that's taken right after communion cleanses the mouth ...

I am not refering to headgear or to the yarmulke -- a relatively modern innovation anyway -- what I was refering to was the talit or prayer shawl with the attached strings or fringes. See the following for the refernces to it: Num. 15:37-41, Lev. 19:19; Deut. 22:11

Ok, but I'm just wondering how ...

If one examines the Bible, one will find that God also told MEN to cover their heads when they pray. The church chose to abandon this practice because it was too Jewish and since they wanted to distance themselves from the Jews…. there went the head coverings for men.


I'm curious as to what this ...

I've been thinking about this somewhat. If something like this ever did happen, I think perhaps the best way to do it would be to buy some land, live on it, and then if anyone wanted to join you you could sell them or give them a section of the land. They'd be responsible for building a dwelling ...

Well, it's a non-issue for us since my wife and I stopped wearing our rings around ten years ago (we've been married 17 years). This was according to the practice of our pre-conversion-to-Orthodoxy sect, and we became so accustomed to being ringless that we never put them back on again. Seemed odd ...

Why couldnt lay people who solely attend a monastery church be said to belong to a parish??


Well, it was one of the Archimandrites at the monastery here that first made this point to me. My personal understanding of it is that the local church (buildings, services held therein, etc) is ...