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To: vladimir998

” In the Orthodox Churches it is still the custom in many places to kiss the hands of a priest and bishops.”

It’s our custom everywhere so far as I know. Whern we meet a priest or hierarch, we kiss his right hand. We will all line up and kiss the priest’s hand tomorrow after the Divine Liturgy’ He will give us anditheron and bless us. It’s a good thing.


16 posted on 01/04/2014 2:32:43 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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To: Kolokotronis

I agree. It is a good thing.


18 posted on 01/04/2014 2:35:40 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: Kolokotronis; vladimir998

It is a very good thing—forget about any ring, these are the hands that Christ has chosen as His instruments to make Himself present among us.


28 posted on 01/04/2014 7:51:26 PM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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