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MariaRegina

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Ask your priest.

My priest told me that people around the world are saying evening prayers when we are saying morning prayers. So, I guess if you are working the night shift and must soon retire to sleep at dawn that the morning prayers would not be appropriate, but the night prayers preparing one for sleep would be more reasonable in those dawn hours.
 
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What do people who work nightshifts do about morning and evening prayers?
Cuz at least the ones I have are very tied in to their relation to sleep...

in my opinion, I don't think God cares when you do them, just that you do them. sorta like what do people who live way up North where they have 24 hours of daylight do.
 
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And there's nothing wrong with switching the words "night" and "day" in the prayers, where appropriate. The prayer should be applicable to you and your situation - you should make the prayer "yours" in that sense.
 
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And there's nothing wrong with switching the words "night" and "day" in the prayers, where appropriate. The prayer should be applicable to you and your situation - you should make the prayer "yours" in that sense.

Switching = change

Is Outrage.

What is this word "switching"? :p

:D
 
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It's like how nonsensical some hymns sound when you live in the Southern hemisphere... soon we will be singing about how the "lenten spring has come" when in the Southern hemisphere it's autumn!
A few years ago someone discovered an old Holy Week service book in the choir's cupboard (here in Athens) that had a note written on the first page, "Holy Week - autumn 1973". Everyone was bemused and wondered how Pascha could have been in autumn that year, until I explained to them that Pascha is in autumn every year, and that person had obviously celebrated it in South Africa or Australia that year!
 
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It's like how nonsensical some hymns sound when you live in the Southern hemisphere... soon we will be singing about how the "lenten spring has come" when in the Southern hemisphere it's autumn!
A few years ago someone discovered an old Holy Week service book in the choir's cupboard (here in Athens) that had a note written on the first page, "Holy Week - autumn 1973". Everyone was bemused and wondered how Pascha could have been in autumn that year, until I explained to them that Pascha is in autumn every year, and that person had obviously celebrated it in South Africa or Australia that year!

:)
 
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On the "Pascha in Autumn" thing - pity us, Forgiveness Vespers is often 40*C+ (it's at the end of summer) and we have a packed church of people in head to toe black. Not fun. Holy Week can be like that too, because Autumn can be quite warm. Ick. Last year I alternately melted and froze depending on what the fickle weather decided to do on any given day!
 
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Here in Montana, we always have to bundle up for the midnight procession on Pascha. It might be 40 degrees F. during the day time, but at night it will be cold! I made the mistake of just wearing my sweater outside during the procession and was about frozen when we went back inside the church.
 
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I bundled up for ours - pretty pascha clothes with a thick warm coat over it all!

Holy Week was weird because I wore about six layers and I'd shed most of them in Church, then have to put them all on again the minute I went outside. Andrew's family is strict with the 'head to toe black for Church, and dark clothes outside Church' thing for Holy Week, so I was wearing every piece of black clothing I own :p
 
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