Wonderful place to start!

Would you please tell me where you buy the floating wicks? I can't find them anywhere, not even the local Catholic store.

@@ianmackenzie686 Legacy Icons

@@ianmackenzie686, Google “Athonite cork float”

I remove all oil lamps due to cats. They are everywhere and already a many have overflow of oil. I buy wax candles from monastery. In my case.

God says he wants us to make images and bow befor them. Ive got a life size Mary statue. Im gonna jump on her back and ride her all the way to heaven.

Hagia Sophia will be liberated one day.

It forces us to struggle, to concentrate, to focus, to become better stewards of our time, it is certainly a challenge but with God‘s grace we can navigate it and keep the Temptations at bay.

@@OrthodoxEthos Thank you Father, you have encouraged me. Now a new question arises - is it appropriate to say "God bless you" to a priest? I saw somebody say it wasn't.

@@colmwhateveryoulike3240 That's a good question. As a former RC/papal Protestant we always said God bless you to people, especiallywhen leaving them or hanging up the phone. I don't hear Orthodox saying it but rather 'God be with you". Now I say 'Panagia mazimas'...which means may the Mother of God be with you.

@@marieegypt7091 Ah interesting, thank you. I was protestant once too.

You can't in rental homes?

@@mik569 depends on the landlord.

​@@staytriggeredsnowflakeeh, I would anyways

God loves images. Jesus spoke of little else.

Same here.

Try starting by insisting that the phone be used primarily for religious then educational purposes. Condition yourself so that when you notice you're noodling and bs-ing on the phone, put it down and do something useful. Modern technology is an incredible blessing yet so so easy to misuse.

The water is put as a protection against fire. So when the wick burns down to the water it goes out.

I've heard "The Law of God" is good, although I haven't read it myself. If your local Orthodox church has a bookstore you can see what catechism books they have and ask what's recommended.

Do you have a priest to ask? Call a solid monastery, they usually sell books. Art of Salvation By Elder Ephraim of Arizona is good. St. Anthony Monastery of Arizona was his home base in America, they have a bookstore. Some churches esp bigger ones have free booklets on numerous topics, good introductions. Practical Pray was good.

Place their pictures in between icons and let them know it is a wall of the people you love the most.

On Instagram you can find many accounts run by people crating hand-painted icons !

*creating

@marina_iconography and many more !

@@vezalisaristidis1358 Thank you, but I don't have instagram, nor facebook, nor twitter.

Glory to Jesus Christ! You could email your hand painted icon request at: ryassa@ryassa.ge The icons for my company are hand-painted by iconographers at the Theological Academy here in Tbilisi, Georgia and cost roughly $200-$500 depending on the size. 10% of the proceeds will also go towards the pan-Orthodox charitable organization Orthodox Africa. Additional information can be found in the following link: www.ryassa.ge/custom-icons/

Any room is better than no room

If you look at the frescoes arrangement inside the Orthodox building, at the highest point (i.e. dome) it is an icon of the Lord. However, his icons are found in many places where He is not on top position (i.e. iconostasis). You won't be wrong by placing His icon on the top position. If you can position extra one on top in your corner, you may get another one and affix it there w/o disturbing current arrangements.

The main icon corner should be in the center of the house where the entire family prays. Should you have another icon corner in your room? Yes. For your private prayers. Your prayer rope. . . Etc.

@@OrthodoxEthos thank you so much for the information! If our center of the home doesn’t face East, is it acceptable to create the icon corner somewhere else?

​@ornpop6969 Da, se poate, la sud sau nord, nu și la vest

The Father! At an OCA Orthodox Church of America location 😊 or whichever Church is nearest honestly. ROCOR Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia or the Greek Orthodox Church of America. The Divine Liturgy is what is important. As soon as you go, you'll understand so much better. I had the same questions. Even worse, I downloaded, printed, framed "Icons" from a place that is owned by a Hindu Pagan. One of the most popular and well known mass producers. It's called "Holy Icons". There is nothing Holy about it. Burn them. Don't throw them out. They sell non Christian items, New Age, and apparently do Hindu & Christian prayers combined to "bless the orders". So stay away. Online legitimate places are St. Elizabeth Convent in Belarus, Legacy Icons is online, American owned. They are approved of and can work with any budget. There are items from Mount Athos like prayer ropes, handmade incense that is the same as 2000+ years ago, made the exact same way. Hand painted Icons can be expensive (local churches sometimes charge less than online) but the Holiness they bring to your house, is indescribable. I'm in Canada and attended the Divine Liturgy at a Romanian OCA church and it was life changing. Christ is risen ☦️ May the Most Holy Theotokos save us.

If you go to a local Orthodox Church they usually sell them for cheap. They just don't advertise it online. Going in person for the second time today was an amazing experience and my young son and I getting a blessing from the Father (instead of taking communion as we're not baptized). It was truly Holy.

In the bible they built icons, so the bible doesn't give a hard no. Also, what is so wrong about telling the gospel through images and art? Look at the early church fathers who were lead by the Holy Spirit, study the ancient church and its practices.

Short but effective video providing an answer to your question: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n6mZq8mjsr-ZfXk.html

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Nope. If you are looking for an analogue it would be more like iconostasis at the church building.

Yes. He said that. You can put one in front of the icons in each room.

@@marieegypt7091 thanks

@@sanja5580 You are welcome. God be with you and the Holy Spirit enlighten you on the path of salvation.

Is that a candle?

@@colmwhateveryoulike3240... An oil lamp since it can burn continuously.

I've never heard that we have to at home, only church.

@@LadyMaria OF course! Usually a pious orthodox women always covers her hair. But especially during prayer. When she stands infront of God. A woman should never pray with hair uncovered.

@@LadyMaria Look for serbian "hadji Theodora" she shows how to cover your head, how to pray, how to prostrate,

@@LadyMaria At home is also a church, the house church. With Holy Icons, incence, candles, oil lamps,

1 Corinthians 11:5 But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved.

Yes. Though generally the cross is used to blessing the bed during the evening prayers so I suggest making it easy to remove for that purpose

Yes

​@@fredfredburger6623 My priest gave me a standing cross for my corner - should I be using that other than for kissing it?

@@colmwhateveryoulike3240 you can use the same cross for many purposes

@@fredfredburger6623 So in my evening prayers when it says the following, should I hold the cross in my hand while making the sign of the cross? "Then kiss thy Cross, and make the sign of the Cross from the head to the foot of the bed, and likewise from side to side, while saying: (The Prayer to the Cross)"

Not everywhere... do not rush, find a place where they are for sale at a reasonable price and have them shipped to you.

Sometimes the lack of objects and icons lead to idolatry. That is a false “idea” of God because the symbols of him are not present.

@@flearhcp Christianity is a relationship with the creator of the heaven and the Earth. He is our Father who is in heaven his name is absolutely hallowed and precious. He created a way for us to be reunited to him because we transgressed and disobeyed his perfect way of life. He sent us his son to die on a cross pay for our transgressions so that we may live. Then he gave us his holy spirit to guide us and be with us. What more do we need did the apostles never carry any icons or images or whatever to keep themselves in the faith. Nothing is needed only Jesus Christ in US which is the Hope of glory. If we carry any icons or images it is only to remind people that are not saved that this is what we believe in. Like early Christians used to draw images of fish to show that they were Fishers of Men. And now we use the cross tell people that we believe in the one who was crucified for our sins. God bless

@@mariopiazza3379 I agree with all you said, it almost reads like a creed. Would you also agree that if Jesus is all you need for salvation, you don't need the bible? Or you don't need to pray or go to church? Icons are the color of what words are to the bible.

@@mariopiazza3379 If only you knew how much good the Icons did in ages when Christians were persecuted and even not allowed to have basic aducation, people were learning faith fom the icons, becaus they could not read.