My first quiz, about Orthodoxy, please take and leave me feedback

[BabyLutheran]

Wow, that's really helpful! I will have to look more closely next time at the garb. Definitely a lot different definition of deacon in the Orthodox church than in my old church, where the deacons were like a finance committee.

What church are those photos from? It is really beautiful inside.

Don't you love how the threads morph into totally new topics?

 

[BabyLutheran]

Just out of curiosity: we have had our regular priest and another priest do the service together. They sort of alternate doing the DL between them, and then serve communion in 2 separate lines at the end. I have gotten the impression that the 2nd priest is in the final stages of divinity school at a local university and is sort of apprenticing perhaps until he gets his own congregation. Is this "kosher" in the Orthodox Church?

 

[kamikat]

Anyone wearing just a robe over their regular clothes is just a server, child or adult.

What about a reader? We typically have a reader that wears just a plain black cassock over his suit. Is this normal?

kamikat

 

[choirfiend]

Yes, a cassock is different than the simple robes. A cassock is as much vestments as anything, and only certain people are allowed to wear them. I am only talking about the over-robes that altar servers wear.

 

[choirfiend]

Just out of curiosity: we have had our regular priest and another priest do the service together. They sort of alternate doing the DL between them, and then serve communion in 2 separate lines at the end. I have gotten the impression that the 2nd priest is in the final stages of divinity school at a local university and is sort of apprenticing perhaps until he gets his own congregation. Is this "kosher" in the Orthodox Church?

Yes, any ordained priest can serve the Liturgy---he doesn't have to have a parish to make him a priest. It is common for seminary students who are going to be ordained (or already have been, even) to spend a semester "interning," learning the ropes of the prayers and actions in the services and to have served actively in a parish before their bishop assigns them to one permanently.

 

[BabyLutheran]

Well, he's a good one, someone's going to get a great priest! If anyone's looking for one, I can hook you up. (lol)