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No, because Icons don't look like that JUST because there's a particular "style" they were created in during a historical time period. Iconography is subject to the same kind of "tradition" the rest of the church is--so there's not much to change, even less so than music! Most painting...

Lord have mercy!

I didnt notice before that they put the priests in black vestments. They should be in white ones!!!!

"at any time" probably refers to giving the names to the priest on any Sunday, not just specifically praying at 40 days, 1 year, 2 year, etc.

When it comes to the "slam man," Whosoever looks at a woman with adultery in his heart is guilty of adultery----i think the same would apply to beating the crud out of a person-substitute while imagining it is the person. Leave the house when he comes over if your sister and mother invite him...

In the US, there is no paid maternity leave. Some companies may offer some, but is is not required. Companies of a big enough size with enough employees may make you eligable for up to 12 weeks of unpaid family disability leave, but that is not the same thing, and it is unpaid. Some countries...

The 40 day tradition is FANTASTIC! In "less-developed" cultures women tradtionally have a 40-day recovery period. In Asia, they keep you super warm and feed you seaweed soup. In Africa, you stay in your home and emerge with the baby in a parade to the town square. Your mother, sisters, aunts...

Ask around--Ive not heard any traditions in general regarding them, just that they are given. My grandparents have their set of icons in their dining room (no idea if this was their wedding set, though I doubt it) and my mother kept theirs on her dresser. Ours is one gigantic one (b/c my mom...

Ive been used to the parents of the couple providing them. Anyone can, though.

We do partake in Sonship--by adoption--by being baptised into Christ. We become heirs of the Kingdom, Sons of God. Maybe not an unreasonable idea.

You receive a Christian name at baptism--if you get baptised as a baby, you probably get called by that name normally. If you havent been named a Christian name and you're getting baptised as an adult, you would choose one.

Jesse, you've really got to put a password on your computer! ;)

Yes. Practice Orthodoxy in the GOC. Truth will not be found in beard length or cloth on the head, but in Christ's Body, which is the Orthodox Church, including greeks. The Amish (or the heretical/schismatic groups that claim "true" Orthodoxy) are wonderful for caring about beard length and...

Depending on how much school costs, it could be more affordable to hire an in-home nanny and choose an online homeschool or charter school curriculum that they would need to administer!

A couple can choose to "break" their marriage in Orthodoxy. Likewise, a priest can be devested and is no longer a priest. In RCC, nothing sacramental can be "broken," so the justification is that the marriage never really happened. Likewise, a priest who is de-vested is still a priest, just...