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Hi all, I've recently made two server gowns for my parish, and it looks like I'll be making more vestments in the future. While I do have *some* experience with vestments (i.e. mending western ones!) at the moment I'm basically just borrowing and copying vestments from the parish. I'd love to...

This makes me really wonder if it's a regional thing. Paidiske and I are both in Australia; the three people in the thread so far who have said they normally don't get them pre-folded have been in the US.

I have no idea. That was basically my reaction, too. It may not be all Catholics - I don't have much long-term exposure to Catholics aside from at university (everyone shares the same chaplaincy facilities), and they told me they bought their ash. Since the crosses pictured in my opening post...

I'm interested by the people who say they get them not folded in their churches! I wonder if it's a regional thing? I've only have seen the pre-folded in parishes - Anglican, Catholic, and Orthodox alike. On the topic of Orthodox and palm crosses - Slavic parishes tend to use willow and not...

Okay, I have no idea where to post this question, so I hope here's fine. A random question for those of you who know how to fold palm crosses (or worship in churches where palm crosses are a thing) - how quickly can you fold them? How many in half an hour? In an hour? I'm only asking because I...

Hehe, our parish has an organ and pews. The pews are used, the organ is not. The topic came up in passing with the choir director (a concert pianist) the other day, and she didn't even realise there was an organ! (I'm not sure how, it's huge). We use the "Religious Centre" at a university...

I've been in late January to Israel. It rained a bit (maybe one or two days a week), even snowed a few flakes when we were in Jerusalem, which was FREEZING (but bearing in mind I'd come straight from an Australian summer, so anything below about 15-18 celsius felt freezing to me, it was probably...

Well, I've just forgot for the second week running to take it in with me... here's hoping for next week! But I spotted at least three of exactly the same thing around the place, including one on the stand where we put the icon of the Theotokos and Christ and the icon of the Saint of the Day...

Oh, not at all! Hopefully he'll get used to it though. He's got very exacting since my grandmother reposed and he can't handle things happening at times other than when he expects things to. Physically he's gone downhill quite quickly, so he hasn't quite in his head caught up with the idea that...

My grandfather, an Anglican priest, has recently moved into a nursing home, and as all the rest of the children and grandchildren are either low church or secular, I was given a box of all the crosses and icons and stuff he no longer has space for. Most of the rest of the icons are obviously...

The parish in Melbourne hires a nearby Baptist church for baptisms involving adult-sized people. The first picture here is one of my sister's favourites, because she thinks it looks like the subdeacon's on fire! The second is Father and Deacon before the service started. My priest from South...

These photos are from Prophet Elias Monastery in South Australia. Well, the new chapel thereof. There are some amazing icons on the walls in the house. The third photo is from Nativity of this year, the same corner of the building as the second photo (although a different angle), for contrast...

Here are two photos from my parish in Melbourne. The first is a close-up of the "insta-iconostasis", and the second is the current official parish photo, from Sunday of Orthodoxy this year. There are a lot of photos on the parish FB page, but none from the last four years or so. There's one lady...

I hope this video thing works. Thirty seconds of Matins and Divine Liturgy, sometime during Lent this year. We meet in the chapel at a university campus. The iconostasis is built on Saturday night and taken down after Liturgy! The icons are also hung every week as well.

My parish at university is Antiochian. I would say about half the parish joins in singing, to various degrees of melodic success. Father and Khouria are active about encouraging the congregation to join in. They used to be Anglican, which is very audience-participation-y, and Khouria often says...

... if you go to a shared lunch and there are seven different sorts of fish and three different vegan cakes on the table, and nothing else other than oreos.

I know this thread was last posted in a while ago, but I have a question that would probably go best in here. Is shark meat okay for fish days (e.g. Apostles' fast, weekends in Nativity fast...)? "Flake", which is shark meat, is one of the cheapest forms of "fish" here but I'm not 100% sure...

... if there's always someone's home-pickled olives on the breakfast/morning tea/refreshments/coffee/fellowship table. ... if everyone you talk to has a different name for the shared food after Liturgy.

This is Father's current campaign in our parish, too! I don't know if it's just the Greeks who are responsible (we are a very mixed parish), but my home/other parish is mostly Russian and there are only a few latecomers. Father from that parish came over for my baptism and was worrying about...

I chose Anna, mother of the Theotokos. Reasons included it being a visit to St. Anne’s church in Jerusalem that first got me really thinking about tradition, really liking her story – seriously, life doesn’t go her way and so she prayers for years and then she becomes grandmother of God – and...