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Do you put your actual lips to the icon when kissing it?

  • Yes, always.

  • Yes, only if I am one of the firsts to arrive and I don't see any lipstick stains.

  • No, I just kiss very close to the surface.

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I kiss the glass very lightly as I usually have lip gloss or light lipstick on at the time when I come into church in the Narthex, so I don't want to smudge a bunch of goop on the glass. And no, I'm not worried about germs. LOL
 
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Monica said:
I kiss the icons and I don't worry about germs. If there is lipstick on the glass, I don't kiss that part. But that doesn't happen that often at my parish which is small. I don't think any of the women put on lipstick before service. Plus, we tend to all ask for blessings from our priest and it would be really gross to leave lipgloss on his hand. Eewwww!

But if you aren't comfortable with it, don't feel that you have to.

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I always take a tissue and blot off my little bit of lip gloss or what have you a few minutes before time to go up with Communion. :)
 
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ClementofRome said:
Just an afterthought....correct me if I err....

I have never kissed any "glass." Don't think I would ever bother to kiss glass. It seems a bit antithetical to the theology behind kissing the icon in the first place.

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The glass container for our icons in the Narthex are for switching the icon for whatever feast day or event it is for that Sunday. I think also the glass protects the icon from being marked up. We have Archangel Michael's icon next to that one that isn't in glass that we kiss also.
 
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