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#210515 - 07/30/06 10:32 AM Reverences, simple bows and metanys
JohnS. Offline
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Registered: 11/26/02
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Will the new DL offer instructions for proper reverences, simple bows and metanys?

Can someone please explain the traditional way (and when) for Carpatho-Rusyns to make a reverence, simple bows and metanys?

Is a simple bow a poklon?

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#210516 - 07/30/06 03:06 PM Re: Reverences, simple bows and metanys
Wondering Offline
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Registered: 08/27/05
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Wonderful question! I was thinking this same thing today at liturgy. Will someone please go through the entire liturgy and notate where each is done and scan the thing back online? It should take less than 10 minutes for someone who knows what s/he is doing.

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#210517 - 07/30/06 04:20 PM Re: Reverences, simple bows and metanys
ByzKat Offline
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Registered: 06/22/04
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... remembering that, to a certain extent, the priest's gestures have always been more more carefully prescribed than those of the people, which also vary from one tradition to another, and often vary with the personal devotion of the individual.

Thus, while there are standard bows made upon entering the church, I see them made somewhat differently in OCA, ACROD, Greek and ROCOR parishes; any set of rules for lay participation is at least a bit arbitrary. Monastic sources might be of use here, rather than the liturgical books themselves. (I would be very interested, for example, to see if someone can find a Carpatho-Rusyn or Ukrainian source for use in the BCC, rather than simply reprinting rules fromt the Russian Church Abroad or the Old Believers, as I was first tempted to do in response to the original question.)

Yours in Christ,
Jeff Mierzejewsi

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