Yeah, I know. Try convincing my mom of that.
Yes. There are a few that wear headscarves at our Church. There is actually an elderly woman of Greek descent that wears one, and there is a family that were of Coptic Orthodox background that wear them. I remember the first time I went to the neighboring OCA for a pan-Orthodox Vespers during Great Lent. I went in a nice sweater, jeans, dress socks and flats. I felt like an idiot because I was the only woman in jeans (pants of any kind) and without a headscarf. I didn't realize at the time (this was several years ago) that that was the practice in the OCA, because that was my first visit. Vespers at my church is more casual, obviously.
Nobody reads the pre-communion or post-communion prayers out loud in our parish. It used to be the pre-communion prayers (you know the one about I believe this is Your Body and this Your precious Blood....) was read out loud, but a year or so after we were at the parish, Met. Isaiah sent letter saying not out loud anymore. There are no rules on that for just women. The whole parish doesn't do them out loud, unfortunately. I kinda liked when we did them out loud. I whisper them before it's time to go up for Communion.
Don't you know? We Greeks and the GOC are too liberal and laid back with our pews and no headscarves and other practices.I wish I were actually joking, but this has been said before that I've heard IRL. That's all I'll say.
that is perfectly acceptable if you aren't. but in ROCOR, Old Rites, and to the even stricter Old Believers, modesty & tradition are very important. personally, i cover my hair in church because it blocks out all that secular energy for me. it's not done as a show but rather a submission & obedience to God.
was much more often used in the Soviet Union, where it had a strong negative connotation, than by the émigrés themselves, who preferred to call themselves simply "Russian émigrés" (русская эмиграцiя or "Russian military émigrés"(русская военная эмиграцiя if they participated in the White movement.
From what I understood Paul to mean was a woman's hair was her covering, but it really doesn't matter to me. I have no problem with head coverings. I just feel uncomfortable wearing them because I'm not used to it. I suppose if I were to practice doing so, I would, but then my priest would probably not permit me to do so because it would seem odd and maybe cause scandal in my church since hardly anyone covers, and all of a sudden I am...may make me look like some prideful hack.
From what I've studied in school and the discussions I've had with certain White Russians, this seems to be the best available description:
"A white émigré was a Russian who emigrated from Russia in the wake of the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War, and who was in opposition to the contemporary Russian political climate. "White émigré" is a political term mostly used in France, the United States, and the UK. A less politically oriented term used in the same countries by the immigrants themselves and by the native population is First wave émigré (Эмигрант первой волны). In the USSR in 1920s1980s the term White émigré (Белоэмигрант) generally had negative connotations. Since the end of the 1980s the term "first wave émigré" has become more common in Russia.
Many white émigrés were participants in the White movement or supported it, although the term is often broadly applied to anyone who may have left the country due to the change in regimes (some of them, like Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, were opposed to the Bolsheviks but had not supported the White movement; some were just apolitical), as well as to the descendants of those who left and still retain a Russian Orthodox Christian identity while living abroad. The term "white émigrés" (белоэмигранты, белая эмиграция
Most white émigrés left Russia from 1917 to 1920 (estimates vary between 900,000 and 2 million), although some managed to leave during the twenties and thirties or were exiled by the Soviet Government (such as, for example, philosopher Ivan Ilyin). They spanned all classes and included military soldiers and officers, Cossacks, intellectuals of various professions, dispossessed businessmen and landowners, as well as officials of the Russian Imperial Government and various anti-Bolshevik governments of the Russian Civil War period. They were not only ethnic Russians but belonged to other ethnic groups as well." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apparently, their faith is based in Orthodoxy but it differs from Greek Orthodoxy and here in Canada they are considered 'White Russian'. Again, I don't want to over step in my assertions here but I did say I would relay what I found out regarding this topic.
