I think they do

@ChuuniMage is it normal for ROCOR to not have pews

I like that better, despite my back problems

Stand when you worship, to flex on them heterodox

ye

They got me doing the readings and singing in the choir

all standing

Nice

no sitting

until fellowship afterwards

Goarch has pews but no sitting

Like...tf you got pews for

it's a bitch when we're doing another entreaty after the divine liturgy

What about an all night vigil

:v

Now that must be hard

I haven't been doing the reading at one of those yet monkaS

but christmas is coming up

Oh

Well

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That's one way to burn off the Christmas calories

:v

Are ROCOR in communion with Constantinople or nah?

Nah the best way to burn calories in church is to be pentecostal and act like you're possessed and shit

I think it's a one-way schism

Yeah I don't think it's too clear

ROCOR broke it off but Constantinople hasn't or something like that, and they're all in communion with the other churches in the eastern orthodox communion

Every priest I asked wasn't 100% sure

Said they'll see what the bishop says

So we're in a very weird position that isn't complete chaos

the relationship is just

strained

Hopefully Bartholomew backs down

I liked the EP just for its historical position and historicity is what originally drew me to Orthodoxy

That is until I saw the icons and all doubts I had suddenly vanished..

Icons were what drew me in in the first place

I thought icons were just paintings

Then as I kept digging, the better and juicier everything was

Beautiful artwork but just artwork, seeing one changed my perception