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The Eucharist in the Early Church
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heh heh me too!
I only have one Rosary according to the Roman configuration, but I have a very large number of prayer ropes and Lestovkas (Old Believer leather prayer counters).
One of my Lestovkas is made of real leather and is configured for praying the Prayer Rule of St. Seraphim of Sarov, which consists of 50 Ave Marias, a Lord’s Prayer and another 50, and one can also add the Jesus Prayer or the Trisagion. These are made at the convent in Sarov and normally cost like $200, but I bought mine at a parish sale at the ROCOR parish in Las Vegas for $10, and I believe I won more there than anyone who was lucky enough to turn a profit after wasting time by indulging in the gambling vice in a casino that day, particularly since prayers benefit us forever, whereas those unfortunate ones who are in thrall to the passion of gambling will lose whatever they won, if not due to the crushing weight of statistical probability, then when they repose, or from some other cause.
My other lestovkas are vinyl, came from the ROCOR Old RIte Church of the Nativity in Erie, PA (which was formerly a schismatic priestless Old Believer parish, but in the 1970s the rector, who was not a priest…weird I know, presuaded the congregation that they should join the canonical Orthodox Church, and thus the solid wall of icons they had at one end of the church saw an altar built on the other side of it, and Holy Doors and Deacons Doors installed, for priestless Old Believers normally do not bother to build an apse in their churches, since they believe there are no legitimate bishops left alive and consequently no presbyters or deacons. These Lestovkas are of the standard Old Rite design, with different sections for the Jesus Prayer, the Prayer of St. Ephraim (which is prayed 17 times during the Hours of Great Lent and Holy Week), 40 sections for Gospodi Pomuli (Lord Have Mercy or Kyrie Eleison; I prefer to pray this in the Greek most of the time; interestingly the Copts pray 41 Kyries, if memory serves, alternating between the Greek/Coptic*, the Arabic and English), and other prayers according to the specifics of the Old Rite, which is very similiar to the New Rite in terms of the text (but visually, the people stand a bit differently in the church, move around less, and wear more traditional attire, and the bishops wear mitres made of fur, and the music tends to be Znamenny Chant or monotone plainsong), but with fewer abbreviations, so Old Rite services tend to exceed Coptic services in length, rivaling Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox liturgies for being the longest in Christendom.
I also completely understand the urge to purchase Bibles; I myself download them for the same reason, since it lately has been hurting me too much to use my physical library. i also am frequently adding prayer books and liturgical books. And I continue to purchase more and more icons. You can never have too many icons.
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My printed liturgical library consists of about 100 books. Fortunately most of them I have access to via PDFs, but a few I do not.
The trouble is, with my hands feeling like they’re on fire much of the time due to arthritis and tendonitis, even with medication, reading a physical book is painful.
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Better than that, I have three iPad Pros and one lightweight iPad air all with Retina displays, and with Kindle, Google Play Books, iBooks, Scribd/Everand, O’Reilly Books Online (for computer science related books), a vast PDF library and access to Archive.org’s digital lending library as a print-disabled reader.
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Basically I’ve got some really nice iPads with not just access to Amazon’s Kindle books but also several other free, paid and subscription e-book providers. Now that Apple finally makes a decent computer, they’re more comfortable than any laptop.
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