Every day of life is a priceless gift from the Lord. And in what a fuss, sometimes, these days pass! We are in such a hurry to live that we forget about gratitude to God for the time given to us. Let's stop for a second, take a breather and go to the temple. How to enter the church correctly and how to behave in it is described in the article.
When to go to the temple?
There is a joke in church circles: don't wait for delivery to the temple, go there yourself. Delivery means a funeral service, and, as you know, it happens posthumously. Therefore, it is worth considering and visiting the church, while there is still strength and opportunity to go there on your own.
How to choose the time? In fact, everything is elementary. There are two options for visiting the temple: outside the service and coming to the service.
How to enter the church correctly if the first option is chosen?
- Find out the opening hours of the nearest temple.
- Choose the moment, go into it.
Literally one or two and you're done. The same goes for church attendance.services. First, we find out when it starts, and then we just arrive at the temple at the appointed time.
Going to church
The question of how to properly enter a church may seem outdated. All of us, more or less, but face Christian traditions. Women know that you need to go to the temple in a headscarf. And men, on the contrary, are supposed to enter under the vaults of the church without a headdress. You may not know about clothes and other accessories, they say, they go to the temple to God, and He looks at our hearts, and not at jeans and T-shirts.
Let's look into this issue. The Lord said that a woman should not wear men's clothing. Our favorite trousers and jeans, although they have firmly entered the ladies' wardrobe, were not originally women's clothing. They were meant for men. Therefore, if you are going to visit the temple, just follow these rules:
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Women must wear a skirt or dress. Moreover, the skirt should be long enough - knee-deep or lower.
- It is worth dressing modestly, as closed as possible. Leave T-shirts with short sleeves, sweaters with a neckline, transparent blouses for publication. The church is the house of God, it is more appropriate to wear a closed long-sleeved shirt here than a defiant blouse.
- Please refrain from wearing lipstick. If you decide to venerate the icons, but if you can’t, you will stain the image. Ideally, when visiting a temple, it is undesirable to use cosmetics at all.
- How to enter the church for men, what to wear?No shorts, T-shirts, wrestling shoes and other open clothes. Jeans or trousers, a long-sleeved shirt, in the cold season - a sweater or jumper. Modest, simple and without any problems, because any man has the listed clothes.
- And again about women. During impurity (critical days) you can not go to the temple. Wait a week, as required by the church charter, and then boldly go to the house of God.
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When going to the service, come early, 15-20 minutes before the start. You will have time to calmly write and submit notes, buy candles, venerate the icons. If you are late for the service, then quietly stand in one place, do not walk around the temple, kissing the icons. This can be done after the service.
Learning to enter the temple
How should a woman, a man and a child enter the church? The rules are the same for everyone. Approach the temple and see the domes - cross yourself three times and make three waist bows. At this moment, it is necessary to pray internally or turn to the Lord in your own words. For example, thank Him for bringing you to church.
Opposite the entrance to the monastery, most often there is an altar. You can immediately recognize him by the beautiful gates and being on a hill. Cross yourself three times again, make three waist bows. After that, you can go to the church shop for candles.
Behavior during worship
How to enter the church, we found out. Now let's talk about how to behave during worship.
About being late for it is disrespectfulto God, we have already pointed out. It pays to arrive early so that you can do everything you need to do. When lighting candles, pray in your own words. Make requests to God, the Mother of God and the saints, in front of whose images you put candles.
By the way, how to put them? First, lightly scorch the bottom of the candle, this is necessary so that the wax melts a little, and it stands evenly in the candlestick. Then light the wick itself, put a burning candle in a candlestick. Cross yourself twice, make two bows (half bows), kiss the image. Step back, make the sign of the cross again, make one bow and talk with the saint.
As soon as the priest at the altar says the words: "Blessed be our God, always, now and forever, and forever and ever," know that the service has begun. And you can’t move around the temple until the end of the service. Choose a place for yourself, stand, listen to the singing, pray to God along with the rest of the people.
Child in the temple
How to enter the church correctly, we have already told. How to behave in the service, also found out. But what about when you come to the temple with a child? If everything is clear with the baby - he sleeps in the arms of his mother or father, then a preschooler and a younger student will not behave so calmly.
First of all, it is necessary to ensure that the descendant does not run around the temple, making loud cries. Alas, but this is just a scourge in the modern church. Parents pray - children run and scream until one of the parishioners or ministers reprimands their parents. Moms and dads, watch your kids. If theythey are naughty, do not want to obey, violate the majesty of the service with their cries and distract the worshipers, it is necessary to take them out of the temple.
Conclusion
We figured out how to enter and exit the church correctly - cross yourself three times, make three bows from the waist. There is nothing difficult in this science.
