Service in the Church

During the service you need to carefully monitor its progress, be baptized and bow down with all those present in the church. Before you put a candle or go to the icon, you should also cross yourself. Entering and leaving the church also make a bow and are baptized. Service in the church does not tolerate fuss. Without the need of it during the service do not go out, women come with a covered head and modestly dressed, if possible, without make-up, during the menstruation in the temple to go strictly forbidden, this is a big sin.

Maintenance of services in accordance with church regulations

There is a church charter, according to which the daily service in monasteries is conducted and should be held in the church. How long does the service in the church last? First comes the morning service, then the Divine Liturgy. Evening service is about 6-7 pm.

A certain time of the day is not mandatory, but the service is tied to a specific time of day by its purpose and content, therefore the church adheres to the services in the hours allocated to it. Duration of service is also not limited to any canons. There are centuries the established custom of conducting service, which averages from 1.5 to 2-3 hours.

Services in the church are divided into diurnal, one-week, and one-year services. Daily subsistence services go on for a day, then repeat, closing, thus, into a circle. It also happens with a week-long, year-round circle. Services do not have a specific ritual, only daily daily services are unchanged, this is the basis of worship.

How is the service in the church?

Daily subsistence services are held daily. In days of fasting, the Great and others, not only service to God is performed, but service in the church is conducted with confession and communion of the Holy Mysteries of Jesus Christ. Large parishes, where a large number of believers gather for services, can perform two liturgies per day. Rural parishioners attend services on Sundays and public holidays.

How are the services in the church? I must say that the services are not committed one at a time. For example, a service dedicated to Birth or Baptism (that is, an event that occurs once a year) is not allocated to a separate ministry, but is connected with the services of the daily circle. The daily circle includes the services of the week and the year. They unite in one service, in which prayers, readings and chants sound, which are related to the days of the year and the week.

In the church there are 9 types of church services: in the morning - the 9th hour, evening service, the evening, then midnight. Morning, and then by the hour: the first, third and sixth. In the evening, after the sixth hour - the Divine Liturgy. The first hour is joined to the morning prayer, and the Divine Liturgy is a special service. All services that should be held in the temple are usually seven.

All prayers, except for "Our Father," were invented by people

The history of Christianity knows only one prayer transmitted directly by Jesus Christ: "Our Father." Then the apostolic instructions gave recommendations for reading the daily prayers. In the morning, at the third hour, in the sixth, in the ninth and in the evening. In the morning - in gratitude to the Lord, the third because Christ received the verdict. The sixth hour is the hour of the crucifixion and the ninth is the hour of sorrow. Evening prayer is a thanksgiving to God. As in ancient times the apostles glorified Jesus Christ and the most significant events related to his life and death, so today the tradition of worship in the temple is preserved.

Each of these services should be sent daily in the church and independently. But, condescending to the conditions of worldly life, the church holds morning and evening services twice a day, that is, in public churches do not adhere strictly to the charter. In monasteries, services are conducted in accordance with the church charter, as expected, seven times a day.

Jesus, in his teachings to the apostles, says that prayer should be sincere. Whatever the prayers written by others, a person always has the opportunity to address God directly, in his heart, and He will surely hear a sincere prayer coming from the heart.