This is great stuff. I may end up incorporating some of this into my historical fiction. Whether I do or not, I still love reading about early Christian practices.
Love this. Appreciate the historical aspects which are important to embrace whether actually spitting or at the very least firmly renouncing darkness. But I like the imagery of spitting. It helps. And the turning east, whether physically or in our hearts - ever turning to the east, to his coming.
I’m Orthodox. We still spit =D
Yep, pretty much unchanged in the Orthodox Church.
This article is amazing. Thank you a lot.
Here's a sort of Part II if you are interested: https://open.substack.com/pub/codyilardo/p/breath-of-god-light-of-our-lamps?r=1q8ur0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Glad you liked it!
This is great stuff. I may end up incorporating some of this into my historical fiction. Whether I do or not, I still love reading about early Christian practices.
Thanks, be sure to share that historical fiction if you incorporate it
Here's a sort of Part II if you are interested: https://open.substack.com/pub/codyilardo/p/breath-of-god-light-of-our-lamps?r=1q8ur0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Love this. Appreciate the historical aspects which are important to embrace whether actually spitting or at the very least firmly renouncing darkness. But I like the imagery of spitting. It helps. And the turning east, whether physically or in our hearts - ever turning to the east, to his coming.